Word: westphalia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of his travels this summer, Dr Kuhn also purchased 40 reproductions of German and Dutch paintings, as well as a 16th century chest made in Westphalia, and an accounting table on which the date 1417 is whittled in Gothic numerals...
Three years ago the obscure name of Heinrich Brüning was not in Germany's Who's Who. He was born in 1885 at Munster in Westphalia, son of a distiller who knew for certain the names of his prosperous ancestors as far back as the 16th Century...
Zentrum to Chancellor. His first duty, young Dr. Brüning felt, was to strive as an underling of the Catholic Zentrum Party in Westphalia - his chief and successful effort being to organize Catholic Zentrum trade unions. Came the War and sterner duties. Bespectacled Dr. Brüning became, in an amazingly short time, be spectacled Captain Brüning, commander of a crack Prussian machine gun unit. In action he won the Iron Cross, both second and first class, returned to Westphalia wounded, hard...
...peasant's son from Bavaria. One was a Prussiafi volunteer, who always made it a point of pride to stand the painful treatments a little longer than any of his comrades; he was also invincible at chess. One was a boy from Westphalia; the fourth was an English prisoner. Once they were joined by a fifth, Fürlein, who had no wound but had lost his voice and could hardly breathe. Suspicious of him at first, the Whistlers soon made him one of them, and were overjoyed when the time came for his operation and the insertion...