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
Last year, aware of mounting pressure from the university, two of the clubs — Fox and Spee — voted to admit women.
From New York Times • May 6, 2016
The need of elevation of soul, in a period which was poor in feeling, made the Protestant Spener, and the Catholic Spee and Scheffler into pietists, and mystics.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
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