Word: teutonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Germany, restored to good standing in the International Lawn Tennis Federation, admitted to eligibility for Davis Cup competition by a two-thirds vote of her onetime enemies, announced last week that she would enter a team in this year's jousts. Tennis followers recalled the last appearance of Teuton forces in the court classic, when, late in July, 1914, the German delegation concluding their match with the victorious Australasians a few hours before the declaration of War; rushed overseas to join their Kaiser's colors in more deadly combat...
Belgium is a sturdy old gentleman of mixed Franco-Teuton stock who has hundreds of highly industrialized factories, and many more intensively cultivated farms. His foreign policy is international, easy to state, based squarely on self-interest, hard to attain. It is Peace Throughout Europe?for Belgium is the unhappy cockpit in which European wars are fought...
Parisian hooligans made discourteous signs, insulting sounds last week, as many a Teuton spread before him Die Neue Pariser Zeitung. Skeptics concluded that the dove of peace has hatched naught more promising than this: the first German newspaper to resume publication in Paris since...
...Including onetime Crown Prince Frederick William, who had staked the able Teuton swimmer...
More than any other worker the Teuton is cooperative. As early as the mid-13th century the towns of Hamburg and Lübeck inaugurated enlightened co-operation which led to the famed Hanseatic League; and late in the 19th century, Germany gave to the world that ultimately co-operative enterprise, the proletarian loan bank. The gigantic post-War industrial Frankenstein erected by Herr Stinnes is conceivable among no other people. Only because the German settles down in any workable industrial harness and tugs mightfully is the Dawes Plan practicable. Today there hangs eminent over Germany a new super-Dawes...