Word: hessen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German Navy consists of eiglu battleships: Braunschweig, Elsass, Hanover, Hessen, Schlesien, Schleswig-Holstein, Preussen, Lothringen; eight light cruisers: Nymphe, Medusa, Thetis, Amazone, Arkona, Hamburg, Berlin, Emden; one surveying vessel, Meteour; 32 destroyers and torpedo-boats ; no submarines. The strength of the Navy is governed by the Treaty of Versailles...
Life's little jokes include none more guileless than the pricked balloon. No one is hurt, some one is embarrassed, and every one laughs. On the score of such a harmless deflation, so the New York Times relates, the Burgomaster of Roosdorf in Hessen is now a blushing Quixote...