Word: heimrath
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Graf's mother, Tessa Heimrath, was born among Catholic Bavarian peasants who all their lives tilled, milked and spun from long before dawn to long after sunset. Like animals, they "observed without surprise or emotion the eternal cycle of budding, maturing, and deteriorating; year in, year out, their eyes and senses noted the uniformity of change." These peasants "always knew the names of the bishop and the ruling Pope, but rarely that of the temporal ruler." With deep misgivings they watched the war against Napoleon III, Bismarck's new Empire, the ascendancy of Protestant Prussia over Catholic Bavaria...
Because of the loss of Heimrath, who was seriously injured in a motor accident some time ago, and the absence of Ballard, due to sickness, Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth, Director of Rowing, has been compelled to make several radical changes in the line-up of the Orange Varsity. At the present time, Clark, who was number 6 on the Freshman eight last year, is stroking the new port-rigged shell though Darnell and Thorne are strong possibilities for the same berth. Captain Dyer is in his old position at Low, and Kennedy is coxing again this season, but the other...
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