Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first match in the water polo tournament, when Germany had beaten Brazil, 7 to 3. Angered by the decisions of the referee, huge Bela Komjadi of Hungary, two of the Brazilians crawled out of the pool and attacked him. Their teammates helped them. The Germans helped Referee Komjadi. Dr. Leo Donath of Hungary, secretary of the International Swimming Federation, tried to stop the fight. Police arrived and whacked him as well as the battling contestants. Bruised and bitter, Dr. Donath left the arena. Said Referee Komjadi: "The Brazilians have no idea of how to play water polo. ... It stands...
Died. Ralph Leo Richards, 37, half-brother of Vincent Richards, professional tennis player; of a bullet fired by a policeman when Richards resisted arrest after a holdup; in Manhattan. Month ago Richards escaped from Eastview Penitentiary (TIME, July...
...foreign electric railways and from all items of construction, equipment and control, Edison's name being substituted. Later he sold his electric elevator company to Otis Elevator Co. Electric traction had many other fathers -including Siemens Co. in Germany, Stephen D. Field, Charles J. Van Depoele, Leo Daft-but Frank Julian Sprague first conceived the idea of a car moving freely between two contact planes, the terminals of a constant potential generating system...
...Ashtabula, Ohio, a telephone company truck splattered mud on Leo Potti. Enraged Leo Potti went about cutting, chopping, sawing, shooting at the company's transcontinental telephone wires whenever he could. He was captured when he fell from a pole...
THREE FEVERS?Leo Walmsley? Knopf...