Spee
Americannoun
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The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2023
Yes, J. Edgar Hoover’s Airedale Spee De Bozo is buried here, but Petey, the dog from the “Our Gang” movies, is not.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2019
Spee and Marx make Peter and Susan’s good-natured earnestness interesting, while Hamp leavens Edmund’s petulance with enough naïveté to make the character relatable.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2016
The club, it turned out, had voted to “welcome all genders” as it began recruiting members for the academic year, Matthew E. Lee, a Harvard senior and president of the Spee, confirmed in an email.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2015
Many such signs seemed to warn von Spee that the time was appropriate to a sudden disappearance.
From World's War Events, Vol. I by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
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