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Word: olaf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other games offer little or no trouble to my intellect, and I have not scruples about revealing the truth; Army 20 Yale 6 Navy 7 Princeton 0 Georgia 19 Florida 3 Illinois 13 Michigan 0 Holy Cross 7 Marquette 0 St. Olaf's 13 Concordia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOE JUNIOR RESENTS HUEY'S INVASION OF FATHER'S FIELD | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

Crown Prince Olaf of Norway and his bride, Princess Martha of Sweden, vacationing last week in a villa high above Oslo Fjord, saw a sailboat drifting helplessly toward the rocks, rushed to their rowboat. Prince Olaf rowed. Princess Martha flung a rope. The sailors were saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sport | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...high seas, last week, the liner Sud Americano stopped to rescue an overboard passenger. Passenger Olaf, a cat, sank 26 times, was dragged in as he was sinking the 27th. Seaman's tradition: Anything lost on maiden voyage brings bad luck. Olaf was on Sud Americano's maiden voyage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...cylinder car of that make by his father, Edward VII. That young iconoclast, Edward of Wales, owns a Rolls-Royce town car, but like his father uses a Crossley in the field. The Sovereign's sister, Queen Maud of Norway, recently gave her son, Crown Prince Olaf, a U. S. Marmon sedan (purchased in London) for a wedding present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Motors | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Herman Devries, Chicago Evening American: "The choir is the greatest of its kind in America, perhaps in the world." Frederick Ramig, Cleve- land Times: "Dr. Christiansen has the greatest vocal ensemble this country has ever heard. The St. Olaf Lutheran Choir is the criterion for all choirs." Richard Spamer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "In all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to St. Olaf." New York World: "Some two score youths and maidens from Northfield, Minn., put on immortality for approxi- mately one hour and thirty minutes last night at the Metropolitan Opera House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mister's Cuffs | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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