Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Hans Strehl, 23, and Lieut. Siegfried Schmidt, 25, both Nazi airmen, both prisoners of war at the Fort Henry internment camp outside Kingston, Ont., seem to have literal minds. Not long ago they apparently got a copy of Pickwick Papers from the camp library, and came across the passage in which Weller the elder suggested that the hero escape from his imprisonment in the Fleet with the help of a piano...
Lieuts, Strehl and Schmidt seemingly decided that old Weller, whose super-cockney sounded like their own German accent of English, had something there. They made their plans slowly...
Some one remembered that there was another piano to be fetched from the camp. He warned the guards. The guards looked at the piano. Siegfried Schmidt...
Although its dedication ceremonies, to be attended by many American scientists, are planned for February, much of the observatory's equipment is already in operation. The mounting for a 24-30. inch Schmidt camera, which will be the most powerful telescope in the tropics, is now under construction at Cambridge...
...Buckeyes' record gives Ohio's taxpayers a chance to crow. Supporters of the State University and its most rabid football rooters, citizens last winter demanded that Ohio State hire Paul Brown, a 32-year-old high-school coach, to replace Francis Schmidt. At Massillon (Ohio) High School, Brown had chalked up a record of only one defeat in 60 games. No one expects him to steer the Buckeyes through the season undefeated-with Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan still to play-but on his record so far Upstart Brown has done the outstanding coaching job of the year...