Word: pell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were in the hands of a peruked gallant, Count Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who had under him a man destined to be one of the world's great generals, Prince Eugene of Savoy. Again the victory was not truly Austria's. What sent the Turkish legions pell mell back across the plains of Hungary was the arrival of the galloping lancers of King John Sobieski of Poland. Whoever won it, it was a great victory. Western Europe was saved for Christianity. The Turks never returned, but they left behind them things to enrich the world: coffee...
...Dutch Air Force with a mass formation of their own. Down came the first black triad, led by the plane labelled I-BALB (Balbo's), to a neat landing in the Zuider Zee. Loud cheers from the throngs on the dikes. Down came the next led by I-PELL (Pellegrini). Then the first red group-I-DINI (Captain Baldini at the controls). Inexplicably the leading red plane smacked the water like a cannonball, somersaulted once, settled into the mud. Captain Baldini and three crewmen were fished out alive, but Sergeant Quintavalle was dead...
players: George Owen, Jr. '23, of the Bruins, and Clark Hodder '25, present coach of the Freshman team. Ian Baldwin '33, C. C. Pell, Jr. '33, J. W. Putnam '33, and Captain-elect P. deB. deGive '34 of this year's Varsity team will also play for the all-starts. F. R. Moseley, Jr. '36 will be the only member of the Freshman team to take part in tonight's game...
...M.I.T. captain-elect. The first all-star forward line will have Putnam as center and Hodder and Captain Alexander Fletcher of Yale as wings. Chase will be the pivot of the second forward line, supported by Baldwin and Paul Curtis of Yale, and in the third line Pell and Moseley will be in the wing positions and John Lax of Boston University at center...
Awarded. To Robert Thompson Pell, retiring as press attaché of the U. S. Embassy at Paris: the Cross of the French Legion of Honor. To Silk Man Joseph Gerli: the decoration of Grand Officer of the Crown of Italy for boosting Italian art traditions...