Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Born at Paris in 1884 of Alsatian parents who had removed to French Territory after the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Captain Amann was educated at the University of Paris, first in the Lycee Montaign and later in the Lycee Louis le Grand. Leaving the University at the age of 16, he entered the leather business and became connected with the Paris branch of an American leather concern. He began his two years military service in 1905, in which he rose to the rank of sergeant. In 1910, he passed examinations for a commission and was made a reserve...
...orthodoxy is the test of intellectual capacity. Indeed one might say that if this affair at Columbia has any value at all, it is to reveal the similarity of ideals and methods between those who shout loudest for the stars and stripes and those whose allegiance is to the Prussian Eagle. ARTHUR K. McCOMB...
This war may not be named by a hyphenated title, as the Franco-Prussian, the Russo-Japanese, the Austro-Servian, because the nationalities which take part in it are too large, too many, and too intricate. It may not be named after one man, as the Napoleonic wars; for we know now that this is not the war of one man, but rather the war of a nation. It may not be named according to its duration, as the Seven Years, the Thirty Years, the Hundred Years Wars, because we have no accurate fore-shadowing of the time which will...
NAME FROM TOR. A. Hughes 2nd Prov. Co. R. D.L. E. Morris " "H. S. Dole " "C. H. Munsell " "R. E. Packard " "H. H. Kennedy " "C. R. Hardin " "S. F. Waddell " "J. R. Proctor 4th Prov. Co. R. D.H. P. Barnes " "G. W. Tobin " "W. L. Kimber " "A. Prussian " "G. K. Hendruth " "P. T. Macurda " "S. J. Gillen " "G. Osgood " "S. A. Smoleve " "S. C. Stanley...
...thousand times self-support with all the troubles and vicissitudes which it entails to the shelter and comfort of the walls of Sing Sing. And to the Sanchos who would ridicule my typical Latin sentimentality, let the noble sentimentality of the Belgian people which saved the world from Prussian militarism be an answer...