Word: stettin
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...value of marks or in dollars. A certain excellent luncheon on the train cost us fifty-two marks each,--the equivalent of seventy-eight cents at exchange then current. Similarly with railway fares: The first class fare from Cologne to Berlin was 330 marks,--or $4.45; from Berlin to Stettin, 85 marks, or $1.28; and from Berlin to Frankfurt including sleeper, or, 191.60 marks, or $2.87. The fare by mail-plane from Berlin to Dortmund,--a trip for which we were booked, but missed on account of fog,--was 500 marks...
...dating from the beginning of the eleventh to the end of the eighteenth century. The earliest works represented are the famous bronze doors of the cathedral at Hildesheim made in about 1015. The most modern piece is the marble statue of Frederick the Great, made by Gottfried Schadow at Stettin. The works vary in size from the masks of dying warriors over the Arsenal at Berlin, to the entire Golden Gate of the cathedral at Freiberg, which is a famous model of portal sculpture belonging to the first half of the thirteenth century. Among the most interesting of the other...