Word: leipsic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor Napoleon now, he quarrelled with Czar Alexander I, he undertook to reprimand that monarch. He won the battle of Borodino but lost three hundred eighty thousand men. In October 1813 he lost at Leipsic to a Russian-Prussian-Austrian coalition. His enemies marched into Paris, the Emperor left for Elba...
...estimated that more than a million of bushels of human and inhuman bones were imported last year from the continent of Europe into the port of Hull. The neighbourhood of Leipsic, Austerlitz, Waterloo, and of all the places where, during the late bloody war, the principal battles were fought, have been swept alike of the bones of the hero and of the horse which he rode . . . thence forwarded to the Yorkshire bone grinders . . . sold to the farmers to manure their lands...
...usual in general condemnations, Mr. Axelgaard finds it convenient to deal in specific personalities. Many are amusing and pertinent, especially that relating the scholastic adventures of Harley Sykes, zoology instructor at West Carolina University. After considerable wire-pulling, Sykes receives a stipend which enables him to study at Leipsic under the famed Professor Brockholtz. Sykes is not exactly sure as to the reasons for his selection, but the names are at least impressive. Arrived at Leipsic, the picaresque scholar is set to work counting blood corpuscles in white mice. A year later, his knowledge burnished by contact with European culture...
Farmer George Bryant of Shelbyville. Ky. saw his hunting dog run under a culvert, heard it bark loudly. Following, he found five steel safe deposit boxes containing $3,200 in bonds, stolen last month from a bank in Leipsic...
...quarter-tone piano-the piano of tomorrow, according to Pianist Earth-which amazed. Pianist Earth, young Leipsic-born U. S. citizen, long felt himself limited by the conventional twelve-tone scale (in the keyboard the seven white full tones and the five black half tones). With the help of one George L. Weitz and the Baldwin Piano Co. he in vented a quarter-tone instrument which has a second keyboard, is double the thick ness of the standard piano, has to be played from an extra high stool. He wrote music for it (North Wind, Shadows of a Cathe dral...