Word: strasbourg
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...lack of coal and industrial energy has been one of the insurmountable obstacles to French reconstruction, Professor Georges Gurvitch of the University of Strasbourg stated last night in Emerson...
Thirty-six out of 93 departments rejected the Constitution. It was adopted in such leftist strongholds as Marseilles and Lille, voted down in the rightist bastions of Paris, Bordeaux, Strasbourg...
...Father Grosjean made a most unecclesiastical reply: "They aren't all imbeciles." He gave an example: "At Mass, when I was ordained, I lauded the father of one of my friends. He was an old anarchist. My anarchist pals had asked me to do it. The bishop of Strasbourg was delighted...
Getaway. From Munich it was a clean getaway across Germany to Strasbourg, across France slowly to Perpignan. He climbed wearily over the Pyrenees into Spain, eventually reached the British Consulate at Barcelona. Horned Pigeon is an almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage...
...time he was 24, Schweitzer had published a volume on Immanuel Kant, earned two doctorates (theology and philosophy) at Strasbourg University, and become a curate. His superiors had to order him to preach for a full 20 minutes when parishioners complained that Schweitzer just "stopped speaking when he found he had nothing more to say." As a sideline, he wrote (in French) a definitive study of Bach, and rewrote it from scratch in German, because the idea of mere translation bored...