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springer, 1: S
1. The impost or place where the vertical support for an arch

Springer 

(full name, Axel Springer Verlag A.G.), a newspaper concern in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). The firm was established in Hamburg by A. Springer in 1947 and became a joint-stock company in 1970. Springer publishes several dailies, notably Die Welt, Hamburger Abendblatt, and Bildzeitung, with a circulation of more than 40 percent of the total for all dailies in the FRG. It also publishes Sunday newspapers and magazines.

Springer publications regularly print propaganda against the USSR and other socialist countries and against the communist movement and democratic forces within the FRG.



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My surprise and perplexity were great on discovering, by touch more than vision, Miss Isabella's springer, Fanny, suspended by a handkerchief, and nearly at its last gasp.
A clear, red fire was burning in the polished grate: a superannuated greyhound, given up to idleness and good living, lay basking before it on the thick, soft rug, on one corner of which, beside the sofa, sat a smart young springer, looking wistfully up in its master's face - perhaps asking permission to share his couch, or, it might be, only soliciting a caress from his hand or a kind word from his lips.
Loker," he said, after a pause, "we must set Adams and Springer on the track of these yer; they've been booked some time.
 
 
 
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