Word: rolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thirteen awards totaling $6,262 given for graduate study during the current year were awarded as follows: the George C. Christian Memorial scholarships to Thomas W. Dakin 2G and Rolf N. Haugen 2G, the Hayden Scholarship to Coleridge A. Braithwaite 1G, Faculty scholarships to Lucille C. Lesch 2G, and Walter VanWert 1G, Charles Swain Thomas Scholarship to Roger E. Bartindale 1G, Gordon McKay scholarships to Ralph J. Johnson 1G and Chrisistime A. Artigas...
...Frank Kukuljevic, Ferenc Puncec and Demeter Mitic, Yugoslavia Davis Cup tennis team: the European Zone Final; defeating Germany's Henner Henkel, Rolf Copfert and Roderich Menzel (onetime Czech Davis Cupper); three matches to two; at Zagreb, Yugoslavia. During the doubles match, while Henkel & Menzel were beating Puncec & Kukuljevic, Yugoslavian spectators, resenting the appearance of Menzel on the German team, booed "Back to Sudetenland!", raised such a rumpus that the Germans hired a bodyguard to protect their Anschlussed star. By winning the European Zone Final, Yugoslavia qualified to meet Australia (unless Australia loses to Cuba) in the Interzone Final...
...became great pals with Rolf Diels, the Chief of the Secret Police, who looked like a Hollywood gangster, with "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, who swore that she was just the woman Hitler needed. (He introduced her to the Führer, but nothing came of it.) She attended the Reichstag trial, other social events that were much duller...
...return trip Boatswain Rolf Barrman, armed with a gun and a bottle, terrorized the crew for three drunken days. The Countess asked Captain Hoffmann as a favor to her to shoot one Ben ("Bugsy") Siegal, who she feared had evil intentions. When a seaman named Bonelli misbehaved, Hoffmann shackled him to the anchor chain. Last straw: a gale blew away most of the rigging. An Italian motorship towed them to port...
...essay Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion, excerpts relating to the evils of violating freedom of speech and the press. At the close of the broadcast, Commentator Carter turned from Philosopher Mill, said: "It is indeed, as the makers of Huskies and Post Toasties have said, as Erik Rolf so ably put it, it is considerably a matter of inability to find convenient time to meet the desires of General Foods that brings this series to a temporary...