What is "meiss"

Usage examples of "meiss".

Otto von Meissner, chief of the Presidential Chancellery, and Goering, who had accompanied Hitler, were the only witnesses to the conversation, and though Meissner is not a completely dependable source, his affidavit at Nuremberg is the only firsthand testimony in existence of what followed.

If anybody found out they would have him on television, sandwiched between a dustman who collected Meissen and a bank-clerk who had taught his dog to smoke a pipe.

It absorbed the energy of the Meissner field, electrocuting the parishioners from the inside out.

Luckily, that volume has already been written, following in great detail the path from the Egyptians to modern times, including the strange effects of Meissner fields, superconductivity, and magnetism.

The accoutrements were exceptional, but the centerpieces, which came from the Castleton collection of prized ceramics, were extraordinary: elaborate covered urns from the famous Sivres factory, a Vincennes demi-bouteille, Meissen clocks and vases, Staffordshire animals, Frankenthal figures, Wedgwood luster bowls, Spode jars.

Texas flash--like the Meissen vase sitting atop a table supported by twisted cowhorns or the spotted horsehide blanket thrown over the back of the leather sofa.

He was educated at Meissen and Leipzic, and began writing for the stage before he was twenty.

Major Oskar von Hindenburg, of Otto von Meissner, the State Secretary to the President, of Papen and other members of the palace camarilla, the President was finally weakening.

To Otto von Meissner, the nimble Secretary of State at the Presidential Chancellery, who had zealously served in that capacity first the Socialist Ebert and then the conservative Hindenburg and who was beginning to think of a third term in office for himself with whoever the President might be - perhaps even Hitler?

Otto von Meissner, chief of the Presidential Chancellery, and Goering, who had accompanied Hitler, were the only witnesses to the conversation, and though Meissner is not a completely dependable source, his affidavit at Nuremberg is the only firsthand testimony in existence of what followed.

Oskar, and his State Secretary, Meissner, held sway behind the throne.

January 22, these two gentlemen stole out of the presidential quarters, grabbed a taxi, as Meissner says, to avoid being noticed and drove to the suburban home of a hitherto unknown Nazi by the name of Joachim von Ribbentrop, who was a friend of Papen - they had served together on the Turkish front during the war.

According to Meissner, Oskar von Hindenburg had been opposed to any truck with the Nazis up to this fateful evening.

President, and Meissner asked me to end our discussion, as Hindenburg was not prepared to wait any longer.

In addition, when Doris Meissner became INS Commissioner in 1993, she found an agency seriously hampered by outdated technology and insufficient human resources.