Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around. Kaiser Wilhelm, then in his finest military feather and almost ready for war, had done quite a little chanticleering about the then fashionable Yellow Peril, but there were many in Berlin who regarded London as the real root of all evil. Among them was a young philosopher named Karl Haushofer (now Adolf Hitler's theorist on geopolitics), who had met Yamashita in Japan in 1908 and now befriended him, publicly accoladed the Japanese as "the Prussians of the East," and sent Yamashita home fat with admiration for German militarism...
Immigration officials yesterday morning confirmed reports that Karl O. H. Lange, research meteorologist at the Blue Hills Observatory, had been sent to Camp Upon, Long Island, which is now being used as an internment camp. They declined to say if he would be there for the duration...
Clausewitz for Autumn. His favorite author, ironically, is the great German military critic, Karl von Clausewitz. One passage which he quotes with especially affectionate comment might well have been his text last week, as he reviewed the lessons of Autumn 1941 before doing his home work for the final exams in Summer...
Aside from the short-lived flurry attending the quiet arrest of Karl Lange, Harvard so far in this war has produced no excitement like that caused by former German instructor Eric Muenter, who tried to stop World War 1 single-handed. The sensational career of this misguided patriot included poisoning his wife, shooting J.P. Morgan, trying to blow up the Capitol, and plotting to destroy giant munitions transports...
...people of the Sugar Bowl and the oil and sulfur wells, there was little meaning in an article about the influence of Danish Philosopher Spren Kierkegaard and Swiss Theologian Karl Barth on the novels of neurotic Czech Author Franz Kafka. What could the busy people of the Delta make of this stanza by Andrew Chiappe...