Word: von
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sigrid von Keyserling '60, student head of hockey at Radcliffe, refused to predict the outcome of today's game, but commented, "Win or lose, we expect some interesting collisions...
Ulich was presented the Commander's Cross of the Merit at the Faculty Club by Werner Von Holleben, German consul in Boston, on behalf of the German nation...
...West Germany, Hans Karl von Mangoldt-Reiboldt, alternate fund governor and chairman of the European Payments Union, spoke up almost as strongly: "There is no intention whatsoever to contemplate a change in the dollar value of the Deutsche Mark...
Died. Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 71, granddaughter of Munitions King Alfred ("Alfred the Great") Krupp, and herself fourth-generation ruler of the Krupp empire, mother of the current (since 1943) Steel Kingpin Alfried Krupp (TIME, Aug. 19), who gave her name to the famed Big Bertha, the 42-centimeter mortar that smashed World War I forts and cleared the way for the German advance into Belgium and France; of a heart ailment; in Essen, Germany...
...civilization itself-sophisticated, modern, even decadent, when England and Germany were still medieval, while France and Spain were somewhere midway between the two stages. "Renounce your desire to see Rome, my friend; what you seek there is not to be found any longer," wrote the aristocratic German theologian Ulrich von Hutten: "You may live from plunder, commit murder and sacrilege . . . but if you do but bring money to Rome, you are a most respectable person. Virtue and heavenly blessings are sold here; you may even buy the privilege of sinning in future...