Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Wilhelm Franz Josef Karl of Austria was a child, Johahn Strauss was in his heaven and all was well with the world. But Wilhelm's youth was soon shadowed by death. First, Cousin Rudolf (the Crown Prince) committed suicide at Mayerling. Then Cousin Franz-Ferdinand (the Heir Apparent) was killed at Sarajevo. Suddenly everyone became terribly solemn and said that young Archduke Wilhelm, the descendant of Holy Roman Emperors, would soon occupy a throne...
...advice on how to handle Moscow, Byrnes turned to no less an authority than Karl Marx, who wrote during another European crisis: "If the other powers hold firm, Russia is sure to retire in a very decent manner." Writes Byrnes: "For many reasons the Soviets do not want war now. They will, I believe, 'retire in a very decent manner.' But if the other powers do not 'hold firm' then, as Marx warned us of the Czarist Russians, 'conquest follows conquest and annexation follows annexation...
Sepeshy had titled his prizewinning picture Marine Still Life. An intricate tangle of moorings, anchors, buoys and boats, it was laboriously pieced together from sketches made at Frankfort harbor, on Lake Michigan. Last year's winner-Karl Knath's abstract Gear-had been similarly composed from sketches of the Provincetown waterfront, but Sepeshy's was far more recognizable...
...they turned the vellum pages of temes such as the Temptation of St. Anthony or the Holy Book, Medieval monks were accustomed to jot personal commentary in the margins. Nowadays Karl Marx is more likely to provoke similar notation from the pen of Widener students...
...author of the quantum theory lived long enough to see his discovery affect all branches of science and all human life. Last week Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, 89, one of history's greatest discoverers, died...