Word: schrader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Netherlands' Anton Schrader, 29, the oldest in the crowd, had escaped from occupied Holland in a small boat, later parachuted back carrying OSS messages to the Dutch underground. After a year at Yale and the cross-country trip, he had been impressed by "the lack of class distinction, the materialistic thinking of most Americans, their absence of reserve, and the general lack of interest in church." One English girl who attended prep school at Bryn Mawr, Pa. thought that "the amount of food Americans waste is disgusting. The amount of clothes American girls have is tremendous-closets and drawers...
...ROGER SCHRADER...
Blazes. In Tacoma, an electrical bed-shaking apparatus rigged up by Emmanuel Schrader to wake him at the right time started shaking at the wrong time, went on shaking till it short-circuited, burned the house down. In Dandridge, Tenn., lightning struck Hugh Hunter's cow barn, set it afire, traveled along a pipe to a water tank on a nearby hill, ripped the tank open, let out a stream of water that ran down the hill and put out the fire...
Captain Bill Daughaday, originally seeded number one was defeated in the finals by the slimmest of margins. Schrader of Lehigh was a very strong wrestler, and neither he nor Daughaday could meet with a common form of wrestling. Daughaday's standups and drags, particularly the former, were clicking, but he was outmatched in the overtime by Schrader's persistent, under arm spin...