Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unseaworthiness, set sail in her shortly after the battle. The boat had accommodations for a crew of five men and the captain. They were 56. They sailed her, rotten as she was, I believe about 2,000 miles, across the Indian Ocean. They transferred (near Padang) to a North German Lloyd steamer Choising and reached Hodeida...
...persons realize how greatly the cash-and-carry provisions of the Neutrality Act improve our position in comparison with the ticklish days of 1914-17. No longer will every sitting of a German prize court rouse the American people to a state of frenzy, for our ships will be kept out of dangerous seas. The "cash" ruling will enable the government to escape acting as a collection agency for big banks that loan money to the Allies. Unrestricted submarine warfare, the immediate occasion of our going to war against Germany in 1917, cannot now affect us. A good foundation...
...this were not enough, an air raid alarm went off at 2 o'clock and German planes flew overhead. We were trapped helplessly on the boat. Fortunately some nearby English planes drove off the German raiders, but the incident certainly gave us a few disquieting moments...
STOCKHOLM--The 1939 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded today to a German Professor, Gerhard Domack, in disregard of a decree by Chancellor Adolf Hitler forbidding Germans to accept any of the Nobel awards...
Among the departments that have accepted a larger number of honors students this year are: Chemistry with 65 per cent out for honors, German 52 per cent, Government 45 per cent, History 43 per cent, Literature 74 per cent, Mathematics 76 per cent, Sociology 46 per cent, and Semitic Languages 100 per cent...