Word: kaiser
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...importance of Jesus as a supreme ethical teacher more than as God's son, and Christianity as the culmination of mankind's spiritual aspirations. World War I destroyed Barth's faith in secular optimism; he was also appalled that his teachers supported the war policy of Kaiser Wilhelm. While serving as a pastor of a Reformed church in the Swiss village of Safenwill, Barth returned to the close study of Scripture. In 1918, he published a modest little book called The Epistle to the Romans. Rewritten and expanded in 1921, the work, in the words of Roman...
They were known as Schlotbarone, smokestack barons of the Ruhr. Bismarck treasured them, and used their shells to break the power of France in Europe. The Kaiser presided over their marriage plans, and misused their steel and submarines to lose the first World War. Hitler was awed by them. Deep in World War II, he took time out to write a special law (the Lex Krupp) to keep their family fortune intact. In the minds of many men in many lands, the Krupp name became synonymous with the cold pursuit of cash, steel and power, indeed, with the shame...
...hobby seems to have been small boys. He transformed a Capri grotto into a scented Sodom, where attendants wore the habit of Franciscan friars and skyrockets were fired to celebrate orgasms. Photographs were taken and circulated. Eventually, reports of the goings on were published in the press. Kaiser Wilhelm rushed to the support of Fritz. But the scandal was too much, and Fritz committed suicide...
...impact on the human soul; after a long illness; in East Berlin. From his experiences as a German soldier in World War I, Zweig fashioned his most famous novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, an evocative, existential account of a soldier executed as an example to the Kaiser's troops. Expelled as a Jew by Hitler in 1933, Zweig spent 15 years in Palestine, where he wrote The Crowning of a King, a tale of intrigue and diplomacy enveloping the German General Staff, and The Axe of Wandsbek, a bitter indictment of Nazi Germany. Yet Zweig always regarded himself...
More to Divide. The No. 1 producer of heavy-duty trucks, International Harvester, is likely to retain its third place in total volume (1967 sales: 167,000 units), ahead of Dodge (141,000), Kaiser Jeep (116,000), CMC (114,000), White Truck (24,000), Mack (16,000) and FWD (1,200). These nine manufacturers accounted for almost all of the 1,500,000 trucks sold in the U.S. last year, dividing a $3.6 billion market among themselves...