Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those are questions which the reader must answer for himself. Suffice to say that in this fragment we have one of the loviest examples of the old Welsh. The translation is practically a literal one with the exception of the word "But", which is written as "However" (from the German "Sed" etc. Vide Med. Phil...
...profession, the average age of starting a career is 30. In many universities all over the country there is a tendency to shorten the undergraduate course. By making the Freshman year less dull and less elemental it should be possible to educate a man in three years. German A and other elementary subjects should not be taught in the University...
THERE was a time not long since when no German could have been presented to the American public in an heroic or even romantic aspect. It would not have been allowed by the British press bureaus, and since these amiable organizations controlled and dictated all foreign news matter published in the United States from August 1914 until the close of the recent unpleasantness, we were forced to put up with whatever makeshift or even imaginary heroes our sometime allies could furnish. And it was indeed a lean week when we were unable to read of the British Battalion Commander...
...some extent, however, the pendulum has swung back, and already a popular magazine of large circulation has chronicled the exploits of Von Richthofen, the great German ace, with a surprising degree of authenticity. Now Lowell Thomas, author of "With Lawrence in Arabia," has told the amazing and almost unbelievably romantic story of Count Luckner's raids upon the Allied shipping of two oceans, and has given us a full-length portrait of this outstanding adventurer...
Suffice it to say that those who mourn the passing of romance will find in this tale adventures compared to which many of more classic stories of battle and exploration pale to insignificance. Already it is being noised abroad that the German fleet performed far more creditable exploits during the war than we were allowed to suppose at the time. The true accounts of the Battle of Jutland and Count Luckner's narrative have gone far to explode the myth of British naval supremacy. And, as it becomes less and less treasonous to believe facts, we will come to know...