Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spencer Drummond Pollard '32, of Washington, D. C. is the winner this year of the Elizabeth Wilder Prize in German...
There are at present many courses such as French 2, German A, la, and lb that are painfully dull and distasteful chiefly because of their elementary nature, but also as a result of the abridged text-books used. In the United States there has recently begun a movement to improve these educational editions for which the modern language department presents the most pertinent demands. As it is now, the books used create little but a dislike for foreign literature; whereas, if they were exchanged for complete editions, reading them would at least satisfy the curiosity of those who feel...
...worthy of their contribution, and waited to see what would be the result of our various appeals without much doubt, however, as to the final outcome. Needless to say, while the cause of the homeless Michigan students was better supported than that of the foreigners, the subscriptions for the German book of diagrams which could be used to personal advantage only, were vastly greater than those for either of the other causes. Thus we proved that as social distance increases, readiness to help others decreases, while one is ready most of all to help oneself, in spite of all that...
Immediate subjects of presidential talk en route to Wiesbaden were, of course, the mechanics of the Opel-G. M. deal. Every German motorcar maker knows that Opel's cheap ($650) standardized car last year controlled exactly half the German market (45,000 cars out of 90,000 total production). Yet G. M. executives, pondering Chevrolet's enormous success in the U.S., talked of scrapping the Opel, offering Germans a still cheaper car. Perhaps it might be the Chevrolet itself. Perhaps it might be a new make, lighter, with only 5 h. p., to sell at 1,800 marks...
...largely accounts for these prices. Even with this duty, it is estimated that General Motors' projected cheap car for the Opel Works could be sold in France at about 16,000 francs ($627). Thus the Opel-General Motors deal seriously threatens Ford in the French, as well as German, markets...