Spengler
Os·wald [oz-wawld; German aws-vahlt], /ˈɒz wɔld; German ˈɔs vɑlt/, 1880–1936, German philosopher.
Other words from Spengler
- Speng·le·ri·an [speng-gleer-ee-uhn, shpeng-], /spɛŋˈglɪər i ən, ʃpɛŋ-/, noun, adjective
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Eventually this drew a visit from the local head of the Security Police, Colonel Att Spengler.
Mandela, My Source: One Journalist’s Memory of Clandestine Meetings | Benjamin Pogrund | December 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSpengler wanted to know how I was getting all this information.
Mandela, My Source: One Journalist’s Memory of Clandestine Meetings | Benjamin Pogrund | December 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI found the morose philosophers (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Spengler) the most interesting.
What did Newtown killer Adam Lanza and Webster, N.Y., Christmas shooter William Spengler have in common?
Comparative historians like Spengler, Pareto and Toynbee realized that history did not merely happen but had some kind of pattern.
The Sensitive Man | Poul William Anderson
Base flat, and this holds good, as remarked by Spengler, even when the specimens are attached to cylindrical pieces of wood.
A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) | Charles DarwinThe portrait of the witty and learned Lazarus Spengler dates from the same year.
Durer | M. F. SweetserA local doctor, by name Spengler, first noticed this fact about 1865, and the valley soon became famous.
British Dictionary definitions for Spengler
/ (ˈspɛŋlə, German ˈʃpɛŋlər) /
Oswald (ˈɔsvalt). 1880–1936, German philosopher of history, noted for The Decline of the West (1918–22), which argues that civilizations go through natural cycles of growth and decay
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