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Wave-Riding Romar. Waves, 12 to 16 feet high, curvetted over each other as the huge German Rohrbach seaplane Romar roared over them in fractious test flight last week. The Rotnar alighted, ploughed through the flapping crests, took to the sprayed air again. The test of her seaworthiness was satisfactory, pleasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Flyers: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...SHOT PUT RECORD HAS CLIMBED UPWARDS IN 50 YEARS ft. in. 1876--Mann, Princeton 30 11 1-2 1877--Larkin, Princeton 33 1879--Larkin, Princeton 33 8 1-2 1880--Moore, Stevens 35 1 1-4 1882--Moore, Columbia 36 3 1884--Reckhart, Columbia 36 3 3-4 1885--Rohrbach, Lafayette 38 1 1886--Coxe, Yale 38 9 1-2 1887--Coxe, Yale 40 9 1-2 1893--Hickok, Yale 41 1-8 1894--Hickok, Yale 42 1895--Hickok, Yale 42 11 1-2 1898--McCracken, Penn 43 8 1-2 1900--Beck, Yale 44 3 1902--Beck, Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farrell Discourses Upon Shot Putting--Its History and Its Performers | 5/27/1926 | See Source »

...Paul Rohrbach, German publicist, returned to Berlin from a trip to the U. S. Wrote he, advising the Germans to accept the experts' reports unconditionally : "Many in Germany, especially in conservative quarters, seem to think the Germans can either accept or reject the Dawes report. In reality it is like this: Acceptance is a desperate decision, but rejection is impossible. "Those who hate self-deception and are not politically ignorant will admit that America must make the final decision on all questions involved in the Dawes report. America is neither generously inclined toward nor well-informed concerning Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sane Counsel | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

...Paul Rohrbach, German professor, just arrived in Berlin after a trip to the U. S. A., said that American freedom is a myth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: No Such Thing | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...Coxe, '87, of Yale, will probably take both the hammer and shot; Rohrbach, of Lafayette, competing with him for the shot, and Brinton and Gibson, of Harvard, for the hammer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 3/16/1887 | See Source »

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