Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Translated, the motto means: "Strongly blow the winds of freedom." It is itself an authentic breath from the pre-Bismarckian Germany, which loved beer and learning and the hearth and which was not at all imperialist...
Formal Dress. Since the War, it has been permissible, though not desirable, for women to wear the same gown at a luncheon or at an afternoon tea, at dinner or at a ball. This year, pre-War distinctions are again in evidence. With more money to spend on clothes, the well-dressed woman will have rich and luxurious gowns for formal wear...
...railroad caused by lack of money and that a rate increase would remedy this situation. . . . I have before me the 1927 annual report of the German National Railway Company and find that the number of accidents in 1927, measured by traffic volume, was lower than under the excellent pre-war conditions in 1913. With pride and satisfaction this report shows that in the safety contest of the world's railroads the German roads are among the very first and compare favorably with the statistics of the American railroads...
...Summer Palace. The cavalrymen were of 21 nations and are in Holland as equestrian performers in the famed Olympic Games (see p. 24). Netherlands recalled that Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina exhibits a pious, Protestant aversion for the Olympic Games, which she regards as a deplorable pagan survival from the pre-Christian days of Ancient Greece...
...handling and filing" divorce papers; but he was gravely accused of accepting as much as 20 or even 25 francs (80? or $1) as an illegal fee or bribe for "expediting" the papers. Piteously M. Le Registrar Chipot plead that when the franc declined to one fourth its pre-War value, "it became customary for us poor registrars to accept whatever fees were offered." The 119 judges, touched by this appeal, suspended Registrar Chipot for two months only, then adjusted his suspension to fall exactly within the two months annual vacation of the Court, at which time the Registrar...