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  • 101Pfulf, Antonie — (1877 1933)    politician; advocated equal rights for women* and abolition of Germany s death penalty. Born in Metz to a Bavarian army officer, she studied pedagogy during 1896 1902 and thereafter taught in Upper Bavaria.* In 1902 she joined the… …

    Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik

  • 102earn — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. work for, gain, win; deserve, merit, rate; make a living, be gainfully employed. See acquisition, justice. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To deserve as reward] Syn. win, merit, gain; see deserve . 2. [To… …

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  • 103gainful — gain|ful [ geınfəl ] adjective usually before noun FORMAL providing money or profit: a gainful occupation ╾ gain|ful|ly adverb: gainfully employed …

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  • 104earn — [v1] make money acquire, attain, be gainfully employed, be in line for*, bring home*, bring home the bacon*, bring home the groceries*, bring in, clean up*, clear*, collect, consummate, cop*, derive, draw, effect, gain, gather, get, gross, hustle …

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  • 105население, занятое в сельском хозяйстве — — [http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/alphabetic?langcode=en] EN working population engaged in agriculture The number of a particular region or nation s working population gainfully employed or otherwise occupied with the production of crops …

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  • 106workingwoman — [wʉrk′iŋwoom΄ən] n. pl. workingwomen [wʉrk′iŋwim΄in] a woman who is gainfully employed; often, specif., such a woman as distinct from a housewife …

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  • 107Townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days. [after… …

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  • 108BUCHAREST — (Rom. Bucureşti), capital of Romania. Before the union of the Danubian principalities (Moldavia and Walachia) in 1859, it was the capital of the principality of Walachia. Up to the 19th century almost the entire Jewish population of Walachia was… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 109GALICIA — (Pol. Galicia; Ger. Galizien; Rus. Galitsiya), geographical political region of E. Europe, in S.E. Poland and N.W. Ukraine, extending northward from the Carpathians into the Vistula Valley to the San River. After numerous changes in the Middle… …

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  • 110GUTTMANN, SIR LUDWIG — (1899–1980), founder and former director of the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, England. Born in Upper Silesia, Germany, Guttmann was an accomplished neurosurgeon and medical director of the Jewish Hospital …

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