Word: holger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army also found that Jimmy's basement workshop could not produce the requisite materials to control the flow and .mixing of fuel. Last week, regretfully, the Army grounded Jimmy's rocket. But Redstone's commander, Brigadier General Holger N. Toftoy, tried to hold open the door of science for Jimmy. Said the general: "We're going to ask Jimmy to come back and go to work for us when he finishes college...
...SHADOW OF MY HAND, by Holger Cahill (409 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a juggling act with four themes in the air at all times: 1) an epic of the soil, 2) a love story, 3) a study of an ex-G.I. reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half...
There was nothing wrong with the Schafer method as far as it went. But a Danish instructor in physical fitness, Holger Nielsen, argued that its rhythmic pressure on the lower ribs of the back caused the lungs to take up only the same amount of air as a person inhales in normal breathing. Nielsen reasoned that if the victim's lungs could be made to take a deep breath, like a man inflating his chest before an open window, there would be a better chance of expelling water or gases from the lungs. Nielsen developed a method...