Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Sept. 11 issue, p. 68, . . . you speak of Germany's Deutschland Uber Alles as being one of its hymns of might. You're wrong. It is anything but that. It is a hymn of German unity, written by a liberal-minded German professor about 1841 and he promptly lost his academic position, travelled incognito from door to door begging his bread. The poem really sets limits to the geographical boundary of Germany...
English Guessing Wrong...
...England's last two guesses are completely wrong. In the first place, this is a foreign, not a domestic quarrel for the German people, and they will rally together to prevent a second Versailles. And secondly, the nation has the same amount of food it always has had, but Nazi officials have been rationing it for years and storing it in large cold storage plants...
...would require managing property. Once they went through city streets in horse-drawn vans, collecting food as well as money. Today each house has a trim truck, in which sisters may spend a day, eating box lunches en route. Energetic, the Little Sisters used to feel that it was wrong to make use of such labor-savers; only in the past decade have they permitted elevators, electric lights, electric washers and cleaners to be installed in their big New York homes...
...week's end Hastings' Conductor Harrison began to feel he had struck a shockingly wrong note. Sputtered he: "The London press have made a mountain out of this molehill. I made a semi-jocular remark to a local press correspondent to the effect that the Siegfried Line is not calculated to make concert goers queue up for a performance of the Siegfried Idyll. I am thinking of putting the matter in the hands of my solicitors...