Word: prussianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quiet in the hog sty!" bellowed Prussian Communists. "Silence in the robbers' den!" roared Prussian Fascists. Amid stentorian shouts for stillness, all proceedings in the Prussian Landtag were temporarily abandoned...
...pride of Obersalzbrunners in dramatist Hauptmann was reawakened when he was asked to become a charter member of the new department of literature in the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts?an honor of primatical magnitude...
...centuries of grammatical debate, many an uncomplimentary assertion has been made concerning the use of language. From strict interpreters of style who follow Walter Pater, the English tongue has received an almost Prussian drilling. With the precision of a top sergeant, they have marshalled modifiers to bear down on the sloppy ranks of slang...
...were the primitive Saxon miners of copper, lead, silver and nickelite (nickel arsenide) from mines which have been yielding their wealth for centuries. For 725 years, since the beginning of the 13th Century, a mine has been operated by the same company - the Mansfeld Mining and Smelting Co. - in Prussian-Saxony, northwest of Leipzig...
...Prussian generals of the Blood-and-Iron school, the possession of disfiguring facial scars by youthful officers was regarded as an essential for promotion...