Word: teutonicisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The size of West Virginia and as populous (2,056,000), Latvia is flat and forested, drained into the Baltic by the sprawling Western Dvina River, which brings wheat, dairy products and lumber down to the capital city of Riga (pop. 393,000). Over the centuries, the hardy Latvian peasants...
The story of transfer No. 7 dates from 1940, when the Nazis occupied Alsace-Lorraine and decided, now that both sides of the Rhine were theirs, to include traditionally German Kehl as part of Strasbourg, which is on the west side of the Rhine. When the Germans retreated, the French...
From time to time groups with no Teutonic flavor whatsoever have used the Museum. In the thirties, Cambridge children trooped into the basement to splotch paint on paper at a very popular free Art Center. During the recent war, army chaplains trained upstairs. Now, the Lowell Institute's WGBH broadcasts...
South of Travemünde, the eleventh meridian lances through fir-tufted hills. With Teutonic thoroughness, the Reds have driven a 33-ft. strip of plowland through villages, fields and farmyards. On the highways the new divide is a steel barrier, or a deep-dug ditch; sometimes, it is a...
From across the Iron Curtain, the warning came: Hopalong Cassidy keep out. Soviet authorities in East Berlin last week laid down rules for the kind of fancy-dress costumes school kids may wear during Fasching, the month-long Teutonic version of Mardi Gras. There must be no Red Indian and...