Word: lingner
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...purpose of the German Hygiene Museum is to persuade lazy, ignorant, indifferent people to look after their own health. The late great German industrialist Dr. Karl August Lingner (died 1916) who conceived the Museum, found that the best persuasion was fascinating study. Money came from German governments (state, municipal), insurance companies, industries. With habitual German thoroughness another prototype institution has been achieved, matching the German planetaria and industrial museums...
...became a Deputy in 1907. They lived in Dresden. The toothpaste tycoon, Lingner, the man who has plastered Europe with ODOL signs, was one of the first to discover Deputy Stresemann's talent for wangling things, and paid well...
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