Word: prager
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to an announcement of Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, last night, Dr. Richard Prager, lately of the University of Berlin and one of the leading European astronomers, will arrive in Boston tomorrow on the Samaria to join the research staff of the Harvard College Observatory. Research work on variable stars will keep him at Harvard for at least two years...
...Czechoslovakia will shortly open three huge cemeteries," announced the Prager Presse defiantly this week. "The largest of the three, at Chodov, is big enough to hold 500,000 corpses." Above this was splashed a headline:" THE MOST MODERN MORGUE IN EUROPE...
Meanwhile, tourist travel to Prague picked up magically overnight. Tourists wolfed tasty Prager ham and downed it with Pilsner beer, convinced that they were safe so long as The Man With the Wrinkled Brow continues his studies...
While Otto Schniebs was in charge of the Dartmouth College ski team it had few real challengers in the U. S. But last year Coach Schniebs resigned, and a 25-year-old Swiss named Walter Prager was imported to succeed him. Skimeister Prager's recommendations consisted of a trunkful of important European skiing-championship awards, including the downhill world championship (1933). He took over Dartmouth's winter activities quietly, confident he could do as good a job as his predecessor. Last week Coach Prager was sure enough of himself to divide his ski squad into...
...Coach Prager himself accompanied the other six-man team (the Brothers Chivers and Bradley, Dick Durrance and John Litchrield) to Sun Valley, Idaho to meet the University of Washington in a dual meet. Washington, coached by Otto Lang, pet pupil of famed Skimeister Hannes Schneider, is to western skiing what Dartmouth is to eastern skiing. When Dick Durrance. generally recognized as the best skier in the U. S., sprained his ankle making a practice run last week. Coach Prager was apprehensive. But his other five skiers went on to make a clean sweep of the meet. Dartmouth took the first...