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  • Service to das Vaterland is really the only metric of worth.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • The immediate task before the captain of the Vaterland was a very simple one.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • Our Navy With the "Vaterland" -- Her Condition -- Knots Added to Her

    Our Navy in the War Lawrence Perry 1914

  • Our Navy With the "Vaterland" -- Her Condition -- Knots Added to Her

    Our Navy in the War Lawrence Perry 1914

  • The immediate task before the captain of the Vaterland was a very simple one.

    The War in the Air 1906

  • Hussars, who swore the most picturesque foreign oaths, and had a wonderful sort of estate or property called the Vaterland in their country across the sea, she was filled with a sense of her own loneliness.

    The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

  • In a very short while he had that battery facing toward the "Vaterland" and hurling German ammunition into the ranks of the slowly retreating Germans.

    History of the 113th Field Artillery 30th Division 1920

  • The "Vaterland", the most important Catholic newspaper in Switzerland, appears at Lucerne, also the excellent

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • "Vaterland", e. g., a Vienna periodical, formerly read by Catholics throughout the Austrian crown lands, irrespective of their own national languages, has now had its circulation curtailed through this cause.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • "Vaterland", has about 11,000 subscribers among Catholics, while among the 63,000 subscribers to the politically and ecclesiastically indifferent "Zürcher Tagesanzeiger", there are about 20,000

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

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