Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...messed up the ball game for the American League All-Stars and the Nationals won. Same year, TIME-covered Helen Hull Jacobs lost the tennis singles at Forest Hills. In 1937, TIME-Covered Pitcher Bobby Feller hurt his arm, and was mostly idle until July. Same year, TIME-covered Baron von Cramm lost to Donald Budge at Forest Hills. Same year, TIME-covered Wallace Wade's football team-Duke-lost the Southern championship to North Carolina. In 1938, TIME-covered Golfer Johnny Goodman, favorite to win the British Amateur, was put out in the early rounds, and booted both...
...Baron Samuel von Pufendorf, a German lawyer who died in 1694, had once made a pointed citation from the laws of Bologna that the rule "whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity" should not extend to the surgeon "who opened the veins of a person that fell down in the street...
...Chamber's Radical majority administered this rebuff to Argentina's Conservative Acting President for two reasons: 1) he had refused to acknowledge its demand that German Ambassador Baron Edward von Thermann be handed his passport; 2) he ignored Radical clamor for a guarantee that November and December provincial elections be conducted honestly, i.e., under Federal rather than potentially fraudulent provincial supervision. The Radicals' objective was to force an extraordinary session for another try at ratification of the sorely needed loan, then to use the meeting to air these complaints. Ramon Castillo said flatly that no extraordinary session...
...become the father of Germany's present leader. But an inquiry once ordered by the late Austrian chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, disclosed that the Fuhrer's grandmother became pregnant during her employment as a servant in a Viennese family. . . . And the family . . . was none other than that of Baron Rothschild...
...Baron Alexander Meyendorff, relative of the assassin of Rasputin, graduate student at Harvard last year, avowed member of the Communist party, and present inmate of Ellis Island in solitary confinement, has appealed to the Harvard CRIMSON to "publish something in my behalf...