Word: leipzig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some Leipzig student players recently visited him at Doom. Said Wilhelm, addressing them: "The only thing that bears me up here is the constant growth of the monarchist movement in Germany. I cannot understand why my abdication was taken as a matter of course by the German people when I had done such immeasurable good for the country, always seeing to it that even the poorest had a sufficient income. I don't know how I can face my grandfather. . . . My hands were clean in the great struggle which was caused by Russia. Our May offensive was the greatest success...
...former Crown Prince: "Women Around the Crown Prince is a book promised by a Leipzig publishing house next month. Advance reviewers say it is mild...
...Weichardt, of Leipzig, isolated a poison which he calls kenatoxin from the muscles of small animals which had died of excessive exertion, A small quantity of this injected into a normal animal produced an increase in endurance, and a resulting antitoxin was secured which has since had remarkable effects in revitalizing tired human beings. It should be used only in emergencies...
...nineteen hundred years, and we have never been able to notice much change in them. Whether they call themselves Germans, Astrogoths or Visigoths; whether they enroll themselves beside the Huns in the armies of Attila or put themselves under the leadership of the Prussians; whether they trick us at Leipzig; whether they are defeated at Ligny or the conquerors at Waterloo; whether they surround us at Sedan or are crushed along the Marne; whether they falsify the Ems telegram in 1870 or violate Belgian neutrality in 1914, they are a people for whom war is for all time their national...
...Mass in D as the only possible disputant for the honor, which leads to the interesting and meaningful consideration that what is possibly the highest piece of Roman liturgical music was written by the devout Lutheran, Bach, who was capelmeister at St. Thomas' Evangelical Church in Leipzig! The moral seems to be that the Mass is so superb a musical form, such a tempting subject for the composer of music, that it quite transcends any points of doctrine...