Word: reval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Kohler, who is regarded as the most prominent psychologist in the world today, was born in Reval, Esthonia, in January, 1887, and was educated in the Universities of Tubingen, Bonn, and Berlin. It was at Berlin that he received his Doctor's degree, and since then has become the leading exponent of the "Gestalt" school of psychology, which has gained rapid favor in recent years...
...hurtled into President Tonisson, dented him painfully, did no real damage. When the President retreated to his car, Front Soldiers seized the off side mudguards, jounced Herr Tonisson severely, nearly turned his car over before police interfered. Next day, pale with fury, the President summoned his Cabinet at Reval on the Baltic. Declaring Estonian democracy "menaced," the Cabinet put Dorpat under martial law, dismissed half the town's police force as tainted with Front Soldier ideology...