Word: kant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the London papers was a beauteous Fraulein by the name of Emma Kant. Her claim upon German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch is that she is not only "Miss Germany" but also the grandniece of that gloomy Teuton, Philosopher Immanuel Kant. Would not the German Ambassador consent to be one of the judges...
Undeniably the grandniece of Immanuel Kant, Miss Germany nonetheless was officially rebuffed by Ambassador von Hoesch. "She is not of pure Aryan blood," he announced.* "Moreover the regime of Realmleader Hitler is strongly antagonistic to this whole proceeding of choosing a 'Miss Europe...
...undisputed "Aryan" was Immanuel Kant...
...Vagabond has not stirred much abroad of late, but sits in close-striving study over Kant's "Ethics," and for relaxation counts the number of students taking History 1 in the New Lecture Hall. In the evenings he watches the first of the terrific little moths fling themselves with pings of desperation against the tin shade of his study lamp. And in the mornings, supine upon his pallet of horrid languor, he gazes with admiration at the accurate spider stretching her slow web across a corner in anticipation of the few flies which wander solemnly through the unremembered rafters...
...Byram Smith, a mild-mannered baking company official in his spare time. Defeated was Dr. Albert Ross Hill, 64, anti-Boss Democrat, onetime (1908-20) president of the University of Missouri, holder of a dozen college degrees and author of The Epistemological Function of the "Thing in Itself" in Kant's Philosophy...