Word: adolphe
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...Adolph Spreckels, grandson of John Diedrich Spreckels, California sugar tycoon, was racing a borrowed outboard motorboat in a regatta on Green Lake, Seattle, when the throttle jammed. Roaring straight into the beach, the tiny craft leaped high as it struck, careened through a crowd of spectators, crashed on top of a sound truck. Sportsman Spreckels was catapulted into the air against a telephone pole where he hung by an arm impaled on one of the climbing spikes. Taken down unconscious, with the arm torn open from shoulder to wrist, he was hospitalized with one of the spectators...
...Association takes it for granted that all its members that are active in writing or speaking have studied Adolph Hitler's fundamental book, "Mein Kampf", with all scientific energy possible, and accepted it as a basis...
...Adolph W. Samborski '26, Director of Intramural Athletics, presented a third trophy, the tennis bowl, to the manager of the Bellboy netmen, and spoke on the value of managers to athletics...
...Coach Adolph Samborski will use the following batting order: Heckel 3b, Johns 2b, Gannett cf, Lupien 1b, Grondahl ss, Prouty if, Cunningham rf, Bacon c, and Curtiss...
...Adolph Kiefer of Chicago, ablest backstroke swimmer in the U. S., won the 150-yd. dash by half the length of the pool, without hurrying broke his own world's record by 3 sec., described his performance into a microphone before getting out of the water...