Word: german
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, March 24--President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan won French and West German approval today for their formula for offering Russia a summit conference this summer...
...girls who want more stimulus than they get in school. But the foundation's sincerest compliment has come from Lakewood's public-school system itself. Last fall, after the foundation's success with teaching French to children, the Lakewood public schools tentatively introduced Spanish, French and German to a selected group of seventh-graders. The program is working out so well that next fall these languages will be offered to all seventh-and eighth-graders. What is more, School Superintendent William B. Edwards last week acknowledged that they may eventually be taught in the elementary grades, just...
...have happened. The speeches are composed by the writer." In The Ship (1943) Briton Forester showed that he could get inside the skins and skulls of British naval officers and ratings. But in his saga of the great BB (battleship) Bismarck, half the protagonists are German, and Forester's attempts at characterization lapse into caricature. The lines he has written for them are implausibly naive...
...Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. He would bribe maidservants with a guinea in order to investigate whether or not they had tails: discovery of a vestigial caudal appendage of course would help the Darwinian faction. His scientific passion caused his social ruin during the visit of a German grand duchess whose family was reputed to be fitted with a Darwinian decoration...
...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). A steaming plateful of gravy-and-dumplings naturalism in the grand German manner. Nevertheless, this modernization of a Gerhart Hauptmann play about the horrors of unmarried motherhood is often moving. With Maria Schell...