Word: wittenberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lutherans, he revived the Luther Formula last year, repeated the service to a packed church last week. The occasion, dear to Lutherans: Reformation Day. Pastor Piepkorn wound up his service by reading the 95 Theses which Martin Luther, 422 years before, nailed on the door of the church in Wittenberg...
...word of mouth. Vegetable and flower sellers, arriving to open their stalls in Berlin markets, promptly pooled their pfennigs to buy cheap brandy and new cider. French Premier Edouard Daladier was supposed by the jubilant Germans to have secured the "Armistice," and in Berlin's huckster-jammed Wittenberg Platz a tipsy citizen, balancing on a chair with glass in hand, bellowed a toast: "Daladier is smarter than we thought...
...unsatisfactory, moved again Jan. 12 but each time I moved boxes of TIME magazines, even the move men complained, says "what on earth are in these boxes?" But I am keeping them hoping someday he will return. Now my 18-year-old son, a student in chemistry at Wittenberg College, takes it and keeps his copies...
...which it achieved a unique place in U. S. journalism, the Literary Digest last week was taken over by TIME, thus ceasing to exist as a separate publication. First issue of the Literary Digest appeared on March 1, 1890. Its publishers, Isaac Kauffman Funk & Adam Willis Wagnalls, classmates at Wittenberg College (Springfield, Ohio) and ordained Lutheran ministers, conceived the magazine as "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world.'' In 1905 this formula was extended to include newspaper comment on the news...
...officers' club in the early days of the Hitler regime. There burly Schutzstaffel would show off their blonde, elegant ladies. Alois' little café prospered to such an extent that last week he opened a showy modern restaurant, the Alois Tearoom, at No. 3 Wittenberg-Platz, near Berlin's fashionable west end. "I call my place the Alois because I do not want to advertise with the name," Alois admitted, but three large profiles of the Führer hang on the walls inside...