Word: leipzig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regime and no Nazi hothead, who was coming to London last week. The pro-German clique in Mayfair was purring. Anthony Eden had plucked up courage to ignore wholly unproved German charges that a Leftist Spanish torpedo or submarine had "grazed and dented" the German cruiser Leipzig. Finally, the German Ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop, extremely unpopular in London, was supposed to have been only bluffing when he demanded, a few days prior, that Britain and France join Germany and Italy in staging a mighty four-power naval demonstration off Valencia to warn the Spanish Leftist Government...
When James Hampton Kirkland of Spartanburg, S. C., eight years out of the University of Leipzig, took over Vanderbilt in 1893, it was chiefly because the bickering Methodist Episcopal bishops who ran it could agree on none but a dark horse candidate. Twenty years earlier Bishop Holland McTeyeire had extracted from his wife's cousin-in-law, "Commodore'' Cornelius Vanderbilt, a $500,000 endowment. An unexpectedly dark horse, Chancellor Kirkland insisted on appointing his own Board of Trust to manage it. When the Church refused to relinquish control, Chancellor Kirkland broke its grip in Tennessee...
Peter Debye, of the University of Leipzig, Physics...
...Solutions of the Field Equations." Another Nobel Prizewinner who was expected to attend but did not was cocky young Werner Heisenberg of Germany, author of the famed "Uncertainty Principle" which has severely shaken the rule of Cause & Effect in physical science. Just as he was getting ready to leave Leipzig, at whose university he has been a professor for nine of his 35 years, the Uncertainty Principle's author was ordered to stay home and serve eight weeks in the German Army...
...square-toed German boot drew back for the kick fortnight ago when Dictator Hitler sent his light cruiser Leipzig steaming into the harbor of the Free City of Danzig. Going ashore, the Leipzig's captain committed a flagrant diplomatic breach by paying courtesy calls upon all Danzig officials except the highest, His Excellency Sean Lester, League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To point up this insult young Albert Forster, supple-muscled leader of the Danzig Nazi Party, declared next day in his Nazi news-organ that the adjective which best describes both the League of Nations...