Word: und
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three votes. Senator Walsh of Montana was given the nomination for vice president by acclamation SUMMARY OF BALLOTING 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Glass 30 72 120 164 274 710 716 McAdoo 218 207 236 265 124 30 294 Davis 176 248 382 268 120 -- 36 Und'wood 266 220 60 156 344 74 24 Smith 158 269 202 265 194 216 -- Walsh 10 8 22 44 28 8 -- Cox 48 48 48 -- -- -- -- Eliot 118 -- -- -- -- -- -- Ralston -- -- 12-- -- -- -- Bryan...
...royal rank. After speeches by members of the Cabinet, Nationalist throngs sang Deutschland Ober Alles. A forest of flags surrounded the cortege, and bore the anti-Jewish swastika cross, old Monarchist and Prussian flags, death's head flags with the motto Mit Gott für Kaiser und der Vaterland. As the royalist hymns arose, adjacent factories and warehouses were lined with workers, stenographers and pale-faced girls who struck up the Communist Internationale in competition with the blare of the Reischswehr bands...
...liquid, used in refrigeration, etc., or further transformed by the Ostwald process (another catalytic), into nitric acid. The Haber process was the industrial and agricultural mainstay of Germany in the War. Shut off from her tremendous imports of fertilizers and explosives, her biggest dye-works, the Badische Anilin und Soda-Fabrik, remodeled its plant to manufacture fixed nitrogen and nitrates, and the Central Empires became chemically independent of the rest of the world...
...without distinguished precedents. One might recall the original nonesuch South Seas Company itself. This, it seems, was formed in the year 1711, for the highly laudable purpose, not of educating the public concerning fish, but of sending English manufactures to South America to be exchanged for shiploads of gold, und for taking over and miraculously disposing of the English national debt in sixteen years. Parliament was favorable and Mr. Walpole, the Cassandra of that generation, was deserted through his opposition to the scheme. "It seemed as if the whole nation had turned stock jobbers. Exchange Alley . . . was blocked by crowds...
Richard Strauss. Tone Poem, "Tod und Verklarung" ("Death and Transfiguration...