Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subordinates in tones so low that only by straining can they hear. The Emperor Napoleon was at times similarly guilty. Indeed as Der Herr Direktor sits at his very big desk - autocratically directing a fleet of 174 vessels totaling 731,688 tons - he is not without a wholly German and quite paradoxical resemblance to the French "Little Corporal." Frugal and precise of tongue, his only recent public utterance was badgered out of him by reporters who wanted to know what the N. G. L. meant, exactly, by announcing that the Bremen and Europa would be "five-day boats."* Goaded, Herr...
...innovation is planned, except that there will be absolutely no closing hour for revelers on the top-deck "Night Club"-an intimate restaurant purposely removed as far as possible from the cabins of those who prefer sleep to giggle water. As in the newest Dutch liner Statendam, the German fliers will have Tourist Third Class accommodation of a luxury not found in the First Class of many small and old eight-day boats. Today the fastest ship in the world is still the Mauretania but with the advent of the Bremen a new speed queen should reign on the Atlantic...
...first, in 1914, was when he refused to follow the French government fleeing to Bordeaux before the German advance. Cannily he declaimed: "The American flag will stay over the American embassy and I will stay with it. There are times when a dead ambassador is of more value than a live...
...philosophy, then wrote: "The Prayer of Maimonides, so called, was written neither by Maimonides nor by any other medieval physician. It is the work in good faith of a modern Jewish doctor, Marcus Hertz of Berlin (1747-1803), the friend and physician of Moses Mendelssohn.* It was written in German and was translated into Hebrew. . . ." And from Hebrew back into modern languages...
Erma is the European Rail Makers' Association, a cartel which includes British, French, German, Belgian and Central European rail manufacturers. It was last week reported that U. S. railmakers were on the point of formally entering the cartel. Thus the cartel would no longer be European but International, thus Erma would evolve into Irma...