Spengler

[ speng-gler; German shpeng-gluh r ]

/ ˈspɛŋ glər; German ˈʃpɛŋ glər /

noun

Os·wald

[oz-wawld; German aws-vahlt] /ˈɒz wɔld; German ˈɔs vɑlt/,1880–1936, German philosopher.

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Speng·le·ri·an

[speng-gleer-ee-uh n, shpeng-] /spɛŋˈglɪər i ən, ʃpɛŋ-/, noun, adjective

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Spengler 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 |DAILY BEAST
I found the morose philosophers (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Spengler) the most interesting.

William H. Gass: How I Write |Noah Charney |March 13, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
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
A local doctor, by name Spengler, first noticed this fact about 1865, and the valley soon became famous.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 |Various

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 Darwin

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Spengler

/ (ˈspɛŋlə, German ˈʃpɛŋlər) /

noun

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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