Scharnhorst
Americannoun
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As critic Gary Scharnhorst writes in an afterword to a recent edition of this classic: “The riposte to ‘it can’t happen here’ is ‘it already has.”
From Salon • May 17, 2025
“It hit so quick, it was incredible,” Kyle Scharnhorst said as he surveyed his damaged apartment complex.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2023
“It hit so quick, it was incredible,” Lahaina resident Kyle Scharnhorst said as he surveyed his apartment complex’s damage in the morning.
From Washington Times • Aug. 11, 2023
This charming son was to become a prolific writer, his biographer Scharnhorst reports, who “out-published his father by a ratio of more than twenty to one.”
From Slate • Jul. 27, 2019
Von Spee, the German Admiral, with his two sons and other officers, went down on the Scharnhorst, refusing to surrender.
From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring
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