Word: staromestska
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Prague, Czechoslovakia. "Alighted at the Kbely aerodrome this morning and motored in through the smoky industrial outskirts to the 'old town.' Saw the Staromestska Radnice (Town Hall) dating from 1381, and the picturesque old Tyn Church, just across the Tyn (Market Place) where the German traders used to come in the 14th Century. So many of them came and got rich that now the Germans control a major portion of the industry of Prague, though they number only about five per cent of its half million population. Remarked to my guide that such a situation must produce...
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