Word: von
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officials were: Referee, J. Sheehan; Judges, Basel and St. Dibley; time keeper, H. O. Von Schickman; announcer, G. Brown, clerk, F. J. McGrath...
...memorable group of potentates assembled at Vienna to discuss the question of peace and the reconstruction of the map of Europe on rather reactionary doctrines. It has required over a hundred years of growth and progress to remould the political and social structure of society, so malformed by Count von Metternich, Czar Alexander of Russia, and the other politicians...
...almost certainly lost, and the enemy storm heavy over the Channel ports. Today we read of a British Cabinet Minister warning his countrymen against a coming peace offensive. And yet the week that is gone has witnessed no Waterloo, no battle of the Marne, though it may be that Von Arnim's defeat between Ypres and Locre may be discovered some day to have borne a much greater significance than the very considerable importance we attach to it now. What we are witnessing today in the spirit of the Allies is the natural rebound after the surmounting of a crisis...
...captive in the chateau--enshrouds the German lieutenant-colonel in his khaki coat and has the firing squad mistakenly shoot him dead. Then the American contingent goes and nails the German general for good measure. Being fed up on such glorious killings, the auditor might expect to see Von Hindenburg shot through the heart for the final curtain, but the authors have not got that far yet. There is still hope, however, for they are yet rearranging the play...
...George von Lengerke Meyer '79, LL.D. '11, former Secretary of the Navy, and a member of the University Board of Overseers, died at his home, 54 Beacon street, Boston, late Saturday night after an illness of several weeks' duration...