Word: gesellschafts
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...with an address in the nation's largest egg auction hall. There some 2,000 farmers and their families in the Saxon market town of Cloppenberg stood stolidly as the Chancellor launched into his basic campaign theme for 1965: the need to develop in West Germany a formierte Gesellschaft, meaning a well-ordered society, with equal restraint on government regimentation and private "stomach filling and greed." The Saxon farmers interrupted Erhard neither for catcalls nor clapping, but they chuckled each time he lit another Black Wisdom cigar, and at the end presented him with a piglet as a good...
...March with the world premiere of The Passion According to St. Luke by American Composer Randall Thompson, and again in October with a week-long international choral festival to be held in Symphony Hall. Among the participants: Britain's Huddersfield Choral Society, Vienna's Singverein of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir...
...Reichseisenbahnhofs-vorstandsamt (Station Master's Office). Across from him, icy, stone-faced officials jotted down the long list of damages inticed by his three small charges. Robert, Leon and Tzara. during the train journey from France ("1 Porcelain Washbasin with Lid, property of the Mittel-Europaeische Schlafwagen Gesellschaft. 1 Enamelled Notice-Plate marked VERBOTEN, property of the Preusfische Staats-Eisenbahm," etc.). Julius begged the little monsters: "Now if you will only be good a little longer, you'll be in your own nice beds with a glass of delicious hot milk." And grabbing Robert (who had skipped behind...
...become a chronicler of human life. Before he was 35, he was successively a civil engineer, a philosopher and an army officer. Most of his later life was spent in seclusion, writing his book and living on subsidies from a group of admirers who called themselves the "Musil-Gesellschaft." He achieved little fame in his lifetime, but was sure that his book would live...
...most American addresses, this poses no problem. But in boiling down the names and addresses for some foreign countries, the "names editors" have to exercise all their ingenuity. Addresses can usually be trimmed through the use of standard abbreviations. In German, for instance, Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, which means "limited," can be cut down to G.m.b.II. Similarly, Aktieselskab, the Danish word for "incorporated," comes down to A/S. The abbreviation Drng. may be used for Dronning, Danish for "queen," and Kong, Danish for "king," can be abbreviated...