Word: kemmerich
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...Hamburg a fat man named Otto Kemmerich got into a swimming pool with a California sea lion. After swimming for ten hours the sea lion went to sleep in the water, was revived with a meal of fresh herring, swam 32 hours more, collapsed. Kemmerich swam four hours longer, a new world's endurance record...
...prophesy. Mr. Wells' facile pen was able to trace the entire history of the world from the monkey to the World War as little more than a preface to the Utopia which was fermenting in his brain. German historians have found the prophet's robes pleasant. The latest, Dr. Kemmerich, too engrossed in the past to heed the late war, predicts that in twenty years Germany will be the mightiest nation in Europe. But since he also predicts that a new Romanoff czar will appear at the same time, his judgement would seem to be deflected by enthusiasm...
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