Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question before the court was whether Adolf Schmidt, a German-language instructor who came to the U.S. in 1939, was a man of "good moral character." Applying for U.S. citizenship, Schmidt admitted casually that he had had sexual intercourse with unmarried women "now & then." Schmidt said he saw nothing wrong with that: he was a bachelor, 44 years old, the women were unmarried, and nobody seemed to mind. But the examiner was shocked. Application denied...
Studying a sky photograph taken last month with their new 48-in. Schmidt telescope, two astronomers at Palomar Observatory spotted a thin streak made by a rapidly moving object. When the streak, in slightly different positions, showed up on later photographs, the astronomers were sure they had seen something new. Last week Drs. Seth B. Nicholson and Robert S. Richardson announced that the streak was an asteroid (midget planet) only nine-tenths of a mile in diameter and about 8,000,000 miles away from the earth...
...talking Red-fringed lieutenants told the men to stick to their demand for a raise of 32 cents (to $1.72 an hour). The stevedores did as they were told. They overwhelmingly (1,467 to 149) rejected the offer and voted to stay on strike. Said I.L.W.U. strike strategist Henry Schmidt: "I've told the men they can look for rough times from now on." So could the rest of Hawaii's 540,000 residents...
...water off Panama's San José Islands in Panama Bay was rough, but the Schmidt boys, Louis Jr., 32, and John, 35, knew their business and were ready for anything-especially marlin. Said Louis, Sailfish are just one, two, three compared to marlin. Marlin are big, scarce, make spectacular leaps clear out of water -and they're good...
...fact that two men handled the rod may keep Schmidt from becoming the new recordholder. But the International Game Fish Association might make an exception. Louis Schmidt, injured as a boy in Baltimore, has only...