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Word: sopron (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Hungary he is prepared to be definitely a poor man's king. ... It is slander to say that Otto speaks Hungarian with an Austrian accent. He speaks better Hungarian than Koloman de Kanya, our present Foreign Minister"-who speaks with the West Hungarian accent of his native town Sopron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Poor Man's King | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...arranged that carloads of the disputed weapons were to go back to Italy by Wiener-Neustadt. Wiener-Neustadt is but 20 mi. from Hungary. If the sealed freight cars containing the rifles were switched in the middle of the night at Wiener-Neustadt to a branch line running to Sopron, Hungary, there unloaded, resealed with forged seals, switched back again and forwarded empty to Italy, there would be 150,000 schillings ($21,000) in it for the Austrian railway union. It would also establish a nice arms smuggling business to the benefit of the Austrian treasury, her railways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: High Treason? | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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