Word: troppau
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...born Joy-Friederike Victoria Gessner in Troppau, Silesia, into the civilized elegance of the Habsburg Empire just before World War I. Even then, on the family estate, she would often accompany the resident gamekeeper through thickets filled with deer and foxes. She went on to study widely-music, dressmaking, metal crafts and premedical subjects-and in 1935 was married to an Austrian businessman. But two years later she went off on vacation to Kenya where, she recalled later, she "fell in love with this wonderful country," and stayed. A second marriage, to Botanist Peter Bally, foundered in 1944 on safari...
...Liechtenstein, the European principality of smallest population (11,500), is still independent, still has its own High Court, and is still reigned by Johann Marie François Placide, Prince de Liechtenstein, Duc de Troppau et de Jägerndorf...
...first prize of $250 for the best undergraduate essay. His subject was "A Defense of Debussy." Joseph Vincent Fuller '14, of St. Paul, Minn., and Herbert Aaron Friedlich '15, of Toledo, O., were each awarded a second prize of $100. Their essays dealt respectively with "The Congresses of Troppau and Laybach," and "Taine's 'Origines de la France Contemporaine...
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