Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearance, however, is partly due to its ill-assorted neighbors. Taken by itself as a work of architecture, the building is a masterpiece. Dean Hudnut of the School of Design calls it "one of the most subtle and original works in the University, a very clever fusion of three German traditions." The building, designed by a Munich architect, manages to gather under one roof a happy combination of a Baroque court, a Romanesque hall, and a Gothic chapel...
...original Germanic Museum was an abandoned gymnasium, an octagonal building which stood where the fire house is now. It was started largely through the enthusiasm of Kuno Francke, professor of German and the Museum's first curator, as a place for exhibits of specimens of Germanic art "from the first contact of Germanic tribes with the civilization of the Roman empire to the present day." Carl Schurz spoke at the opening in 1903, and Kaiser Wilhelm donated a considerable part of the original collection...
...been for the Nazis, Villon might never have done so well as an artist. With his wife, he fled Paris a jump ahead of the German army in 1940 and spent three disconsolate months near Toulouse. There he did the first landscapes of his career-neatly representational sketches that might have been made by an architect on vacation. Then he wandered back to Paris and spent the rest of the war years turning out cubist paintings based on his landscape sketches...
...overtakes a black-marketeering colonel in Manila. But it is in the title story that Shaplen does his most explicit preaching. True to pattern, U.S. Army 1st Lieut. Robert Gordon is a man of good will and hazy intention when he gets to Macao on leave. He and a German Jewish refugee doctor help a striking native laborer who has been injured; for this, the doctor is murdered by local reactionaries, and the police are blandly indifferent. Lieut. Gordon leaves on the next steamer for Hong Kong, but at least he has decided which side he is on: when...
Annex Zionists won back their charter Thursday after handing the proper credentials in to the executive board, which was granted power by Council to recharter both the Zionists and the German Club as soon as they complied with the rules...