Word: thuringia
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...Charles Francis Adams Jr., Harvard student, son of the Secretary of the Navy, was arrested for speeding at Old Saybrook, Conn. He did not mention in court his illustrious relationship. Fine: $1. Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, pugilist, driving his new Lancia racer at a terrific pace through Thuringia, steered to avoid an urchin, crashed into a building, climbed out of the wreck with minor flesh cuts...
...Zeppelin. The covering of the airship is of fabric. He might have broken through and caused disaster when she was in the air. The stowaway who crossed from Germany to the U. S., one Albert Buschko, 19, Dusseldorf baker's apprentice, was sent home on the Hamburg-American liner Thuringia, ignominiously...
Martin Luther's father, Hans Luther (Lyder, Luder, Ludher) was a peasant from Möhra Township, Thuringia. After his marriage he settled in Mansfeld, like many another peasant, attracted by the prospect of work in the mines there. Thrifty, he leased first one, then three small furnaces for smelting iron ore. He prospered. His son, Martin, went to the Mansfeld village school, later to St. George's School at Eisenach and the University of Erfurt, then Germany's most famed. To suggest that Martin Luther was ignorant would be absurd, but to deny that...
Seven minute united states are represented in the Diet of Thuringia, a land which is itself only one of the 18 united states of the German Republic. Last week the Thuringian Diet began to debate favorably a wise measure transferring its entire Finance Department to the National Government in the interest of administrative economy...
Hamburg-American Decision. The Hamburg-American Line last week decided to abandon Boston as a terminal for its Westphalia, Thuringia and Cleveland. Henceforth they will make New York their U. S. port...