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Word: germensur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brutal, ancient German university custom of dueling had died there came a shock last week. In William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Frazier Hunt, onetime War correspondent & Mexican sugar planter, wrote that at Berlin "only the other day" he had witnessed two German students fight, not a Schlägermensur or sport duel, wherein undergraduates belabor one another with large, blunt broadswords, but a secret, illegal Säbelmensur, oldtime insult duel, with sharp sabres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: German Enrollments | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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