Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, candidates for the degree of A.M., entering on and after September, 1929, will be required to show a reading knowledge of either French or German, and an elementary knowledge of the other of these two languages, according to a vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences made public yesterday. This new ruling will raise the standard of the language requirements for the higher degree to the level now existing in Harvard College for the degrees...
...days later the U. S. Ambassador at Berlin, dignified, popular Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, sat discreetly silent at a banquet while famed German Foreign Minister and Peace Prizer Dr. Gustav Stresemann flayed the Hoover-Gibson attitude by implication thus...
...promise brotherly support for the German Communists from the Communists of all the world," wrote Comrade Zinoviev. "There shall be a glorious Red Future for Germany...
According to the Zinoviev account of Berlin's May Day, it was the Social Democrats in the German Government who precipitated the police attack, not the Communists who invited it. The Social Democrats, boasted Bomb Boy Zinoviev, fear that the Communist Party is growing in Germany, fear it will get out of hand...
...preparation for the return trip of the Graf Zeppelin to Friedrichshafen, if and after it reaches the U. S. next week as planned, Union Carbide & Carbon Co. last week shipped several tank cars of a new fuel gas to Lakehurst. The German dirigible in its flight to the U. S. last year, used gas instead of gasoline as fuel for its engines?the reason being that when gasoline is used up, an airship becomes lighter and rises unless some of its bag gas is also set free, a costly expedient. Gaseous fuel as it is used up can be replaced...