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...pamphlet is a rare example of a political poem by Eberhart. The first stanza reads...
Harvard's play, a trifle unsure in the first period, reached crispness in the final stanza. The Eagles were completely stymied until they mounted a desperation drive in the final sixty seconds...
Because the text is both offensive and frightening to many foreigners, West Germans have been asked by the Bonn government not to use the first stanza of the German national anthem. It begins with a rousing Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, and goes on to lay claim to vast tracts of land that either never were German or have been ceded to other countries after two lost wars.* Instead, Bonn has asked West Germans to sing the far less nationalistic third stanza, which calls simply for "unity, justice and freedom for the German Fatherland." Nowadays that request is being defiantly...
...first stanza: Germany, Germany above all, Above all in the world; When it comes to defense and defiance, Stand united as brothers, From the Meuse to the Meinel, from the Adige to the Belt, Germany, Germany above all, Above all in the world. Today the Meuse River flows in France and Belgium, the Memel in Lithuania, the Adige in Italy, and the Belt in Denmark...
...first two periods, with B.U. holding an edge in play. The Terriers looked especially strong after the 15-minute mark of each frame: they scored twice in the last three minutes of the first period to tie the score at 2-2; then at 17:21 of the next stanza to knot the contest...