Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Germany. At Cologne the Rhine reached the highest flood mark in a century, 30 feet 4 inches above normal, and ferries always kept in reserve were totally unable to cope with the utter breakdown of transportation. The onetime U. S. Army of Occupation Headquarters at Coblentz was inundated by 20 feet of water. The statue of Wilhelm der Zweite atop the great Hohenzollern Bridge over the Rhine looked out upon a seemingly limitless dirt-yellow sea, which churned over vast areas of the Rhine valley...
...since childhood the minds of college men have been poisoned against the Bible by those very people who most believed in it. They have held it up as a good holy book filled with deep moral lessons. They have advertised it in a way certain to fill any normal boy with the bitterest loathing. Soft handed ministers have spoken of it in hushed, strained voices, Sunday school teachers have branded its messages among the unpleasant memories in the minds of their young disciples. Its simple, powerful legends have been darkened by the smoke of wordy sermons, while the listeners watched...
Throughout the week Berliners gradually resumed their normal health and spirits after a period of torpor induced by the consumption of the following yuletide viands, as estimated by Der Tag: 3½ million pounds of meat, chiefly geese and heavy cuts suitable for roasting; slightly under one million pounds of carp, the traditional and indispensable dish of the German for Christmas Eve; 4 million eggs; 1 million pounds of sugar; 125 tons of fruits and nuts; and "at least 210 million marks' worth of beer and wine...
Roman Fascists buried their noses deep amid the pages of the ultra-Fascist news organ, L'Impero. When their heads tipped back to a normal angle, a great light shone in their eyes. Excited, they read to one another a creed just formulated by Signor Marinetti, so called "founder of futurism." It called upon loyal Fascists to profess openly their belief in the following tenets...
...political" in Article 3 (above) shall be interpreted in the widest sense, to cover all hostile agreements against either country under these heads. 3) The contracting parties mutually agree to determine upon a method of peaceably regulating differences arising between them which are not susceptible of adjustment through the normal diplomatic channels...