Word: ellie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report was a cold, painstaking case history of six German women, taken to Russia in 1945, who were released last summer and made their way to the British zone of Germany. They were Ida and Elli, both 21; Hanna, 24; Margret, 26; Agnes, 32 and Emma, 37. Cambridge University's Dr. Reginald Dean, engaged in nutrition research in Wuppertal, took down their stories. Excerpts...
...continuing at North Conway, N.H. the school he founded in the Austrian Tyrol. At Manchester, Vt. his onetime assistant, Otto Lang, has transplanted the school he operated at Sun Valley during the past two years. Among Lang's corps of assistants are many famed Alpine experts, including Shirley ("Elli") Stiller, one of the few women instructors...
Crimson natators will take part in the events but are given little chance to overtake the speedy Elli tankmen or some of the other teams that come out of the West and South with impressive records. Michigan once more will have a well-oiled machine, coach Matt Mann again having turned the trick of developing a well-balanced squad at Ann Arbor. Ohio state will also be and outstanding contender for the title that the Maize and Blue swimmers have held for eight campaigns...
...steep-roofed, three-story house, with the front door opening on the street, an arched carriage entrance at the side. Over the door was a freshly painted sign: "Eggs, venison and fowl, Proprietor Elli Wagner." In the courtyard behind the house still stood the decaying shop, with moldering yellow bricks and sturdy, hand-hewn beams, where Grandfather Willkie, and his father before him, kept their coppersmithy...
...talent sold out to the Nazis, who salves what conscience he has in writing a brilliant, corrupt biography of Beaumarchais, and a secret journal; of Raoul his son, a bright, sensitive young crook, who tries leading a French-fascist Youth Movement, writes a scalding novel about his father; of Elli, a "helpless" and much-helped refugee who, flufily shouldering her betters out of the way, manages to make out very nicely...