Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archduke Robert, 24, second son of the late Austrian Kaiser Karl, was sent from Belgium to Paris by his brother Archduke Otto, 26, the Habsburg Pretender, with an offer to recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated...
Foremost U. S. rocketeer is Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard, who, backed by Guggenheim funds, runs a rocket-experiment station in the New Mexico desert. In his early experiments taciturn Dr. Goddard used ordinary gunpowder for fuel, has since switched to liquid fuels, such as a mixture of oxygen and gasoline, or oxygen and hydrogen-tricky to handle but highly efficient. He has sent rockets up vertically to heights of a mile and a half. His chief interest in rockets: as a possible means of carrying scientific instruments up higher than stratosphere balloons can take them. But experimenters abroad, especially...
...Robert A. Brady (famed economist, a popular teacher who talks through his beard): "Can be exciting but is guaranteed hard...
Sears Prizes, of $400 each, given annually to the students in the School who have done the most brilliant work in their class during the past year, regardless of financial need, were awarded to Robert S. Ashby, Melvin Richter '37, Albert J. Rosenthal, and James P. Williams...
...dinner, which is sponsored by Robert F. Herrick '90, will include as honor guests President Conant, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, Bill Bingham, Tom Bolles, and Dick Harlow...