Word: merk
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DIED. Frederick Merk, 90, onetime head of the Harvard history department and author of Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History (1963); of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. From 1923 until his retirement in 1957, he taught a famous course-known to generations of students as "Wagon Wheels" or "Cowboys and Indians"-that traced the settlement of the American West...
Frederick Merk, Gurney Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science and a famous expert on American westward expansion, died of a heart attack Saturday in Cambridge. He was 90 years...
...Merk, who taught at Harvard between 1918 and 1957, was renowned both for his profoundly influential works of scholarship and his consistently popular lectures...
...stop eight men as rapidly as possible under bad lighting conditions-an impossible task. The small German force of police held back for more than an hour after the first shots were fired. Some of the 500 German soldiers on hand, who were under control of Interior Minister Bruno Merk of the Bavarian government, were being used to control crowds on the perimeter of the airfield. They would have been more usefully employed in assaulting the helicopters. By holding back after committing themselves, the Germans wasted their advantage of surprise...