Word: germanize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...classrooms. To offset dwindling enrollment, faculties need to reach out globally to attract foreign students as well as top-notch foreign teachers, who bring with them the ability to win lucrative research grants. But foreigners who opt to study in Japan sometimes regret their decision. Martin Rieger, a German attending Aoyama Gakuin University in central Tokyo, says that after one semester, he worries that he's falling behind his peers at his home university near Luxembourg. "I'm writing about topics and issues that will help no way in my future," says Rieger, 26. Bruce Stronach, president of Yokohama City...
...death camps, and faced punishment for war crimes. Other works surfaced only after the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of Delacroix's own favorites, Portrait of a Young Man, in which he portrays a pale aesthete wearing a blue cap, was found after a former German soldier on his deathbed confessed to his priest that he possessed the missing painting. The priest informed the French embassy in Berlin, which secured the painting's return to France...
...German professor Peter J. Burgard said that the quorum is too low already, and that lowering it further might encourage even worse attendance at meetings...
...administrator found him in the graduate student lounge and told him that the dialect coach for “The Good Shepherd” was looking for someone to translate a passage from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.”In the movie, a beautiful German translator asks Matt Damon’s character if he’s read Ovid, and Damon responds with the quotation Schafer translated.As a thank-you, Schafer and his wife were invited to one of the movie’s rehearsals at the set in Manhattan...
Look up Adolf Hitler in Wikipedia and you’ll learn that he was “an Austrian who led the National Socialist German Workers Party,” which “emphasised nationalism and antisemitism and murdered many of its opponents to ensure success.” Look up the Holocaust: “the term used to describe the killing of approximately six million European Jews during World War II.”So it is that, on a website that serves as a central information source for our era, one of history?...