Word: maximilian
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...Maximilian Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, his license to fight where fighting is most lucrative still withheld by the New York State Boxing Commission was "practically a nervous wreck" as he stepped aboard the Hamburg-American liner Albert Ballin, bound for Berlin, his mother and a rest. Warned that unless he soon returned Argentine's Victorio Maria Campolo would replace him as world's champion heavyweight contender, Herr Schmeling scoffed: "Campolo is a one-day fly ... here today and gone tomorrow...
...Fleischmann distribution system is not the "invention" of any one man. It was developed along with the growth of the company. No transportation problem existed in 1868 when Charles and Maximilian Fleischmann, immigrants from Austria-Hungary, and James Gaff of Cincinnati, founded Gaff, Fleischmann & Co. at Riverside, Ohio. Their first great forward step was made in 1876 when they exhibited a Model Vienna Bakery at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. From the fame of this exhibit came an increased demand for Fleischmann's yeast. Soon there was a Fleischmann plant on Long Island, then another at Peekskill, N. Y, Guiding...
...great "Triumphal Car" by Durer, dated 1522, was one of the woodcuts planned by the Emperor Maximilian to glorify his family and achievements. Closely allied to it are the twelve proofs of subjects from Hans Holbein's "Dance of Death", which make the set in the Fogg Museum one of the few full ones in the world. The "Dance of Death" was a favorite subject in the north of Europe during the Middle Ages, and Holbein's series of woodcuts, his most important work in this style, in one of the finest representations...
Refused. Prince Raphael Renier Carl Maria Josef Anton Ignatz Hubert Lamoral of Thurn und Taxis; by Princess Ilia of Bohemia; at the altar, in Regensburg, Bavaria. Reason: She preferred to espouse his younger brother, Prince Philip Ernst Maria Adalbert Josef Maximilian Anton Ignatz Stanislas Lamoral of Thurn und Taxis, whom she had met while preparing to marry Prince Raphael Renier Carl Maria Josef...
...Maximilian Siegfried Victor Schmeling of Germany so pummeled, kneaded and battered Johnny Risko, the Cleveland baker-boy, that the referee stopped their heavyweight fight, last week, in the ninth round. No one before him had knocked out Risko. Fighter Schmeling, who facially resembles onetime Fighter Dempsey (TIME, Jan. 21), looked more like him than ever. His performance revived the theory that another Real Fighter will yet be found and perfected for the perfection-loving U. S. public. Fighter Schmeling's best-punching hand is his right...