Word: grossenhain
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...less remarkable than this gadget is the small, grey man who thought it up-Professor Frederick Kurt Kirsten of the University of Washington. Born in Saxon Germany 55 years ago, Frederick Kirsten once terrified the town of Grossenhain by enveloping it in a smoke screen, ran away to sea at 17 in a three-masted windjammer, jumped ship in Tacoma with $1.50 in his pocket. He first sought shelter with a farmer whose daughter he eventually married. Someone persuaded him to enter the University of Washington. He worked his way through the school of electrical engineering, putting in eight hours...
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