Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...currently depressed price of raw materials. When the common market comes into being, however, they will be faced with a probable 29% duty on all English cars they hope to sell on the Continent. This duty is not higher than at present, but the difference is that German Volkswagens will sell in France, and Renault Dauphines in Germany, without paying such heavy duty...
...this era of wing-footed Prime Ministers, who find it easier to pop over in a plane than to telephone. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had been in and out of London on several occasions, and always welcome. Thus nobody expected anything untoward when an equally respected figure, West German President Theodor Heuss, 74, arrived to pay a call. But Heuss also happened to be the first German head of state invited to Britain on a ceremonial visit since Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1907, and he came as a symbol of the German nation. In the intervening 51 years Britons and Germans...
Royal Ancestry. But "Fritz" was not out yet. As Heuss and the Queen rode at a horse's pace in an open coach from the station to Buckingham Palace, the crowds stood silent except for an occasional shout, mostly in German. There was none of the hostility shown Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, but Londoners were at best curious, and at worst cold...
Stuart P. Atkins, professor of German, said that there is a "general change in the pattern of secondary school and college education," under which "languages have suddenly acquired an independent character." He added that the change in English Department policy permitted Honors students to take an advanced modern language course...
Lady Diana's childhood was clouded by nothing worse than an unfortunate German governess, muscular trouble (treated with galvanism), and a feeling that she was not so pretty as her sisters. Actually, she grew up to be the most celebrated beauty of London society, later impressed the U.S. public by her appearances as the Virgin and as the Nun in Max Reinhardt's 1924 production of The Miracle. She was spared the rigors of a formal education, and to this day claims that her spelling is so phonetic that when she has a cold she writes...