Word: kissner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boat) was invented by a Bavarian named Klepper in 1902. After the War, faltbootpaddeln took Germany by storm, became as popular in summer as skiing is in winter. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and England there are now some 500,000 faltboats. Year and a half ago one Jakob Kissner arrived in the U. S., got a patent on faltboats, began making them under the name Folbot in Long Island City. To date he has sold about 2,000. Last fortnight, recalling that skiing won U. S. favor through snow trains, Jakob Kissner persuaded the New York, New Haven & Hartford...
...Kissner's Folbots cost from $40 to $70, come in five models and two typesצrdinary and heavy duty. The complete craft weighs about 50 lb. A canvas deck keeps out spray, and two rubber notation tanks prevent sinking in case of capsizing. Low-slung, they are hard to tip over. Experts have made the 1,400 miles around the coast of England, the 17,000 miles from England to New Guinea, the 1,500 miles from Manhattan to Chicago. German, British and U. S. submarines are sometimes outfitted with them. As in skiing, German is the language...
Benjamin Alexander, Edmund Callis Berkeley, Spencer Brown, Lyman Henry Butterfield. Frank McMinn Chambers, Joseph Leo Doop, Jerome David Frank, Ray Irvine Hardin. Albert Gailord Hart, 2d., Leo Tolstoi Hurwitz, Franklin Hasse Kissner. Walter Frederick Koetzle, Edward VanPraag Lee, Benjamin Butler McKeever, Jr., Reginald Henry Phelps, Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene, George Winslow Simpkins, John Walker, 3d., Frederick Mundell Watkins, John Frank Wood...
...five holders of Sheldon Travelling Fellowships, which enable the recipients to spend a year in foreign travel, are: Frank McMinn Chambers, of Port Arthur, Texas, Summa Cum Laude in Romance Languages; Albert Gallord Hart 2d, White Plains, New York, Summa Cum Laude in Economics; Franklin Haase Kissner, Bethlehem, Pa., Summa Cum Laude in English; John Chester Miller, Tacoma, Washington, Summa Cum Laude in History and Literature; John Frank Wood, Chester, Pa., Summa Cum Laude in History, and winner of the Washburn Prize for the best thesis in history...