Word: von
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were also experimenting with rockets, most of them inspired by The Rocket into Interplanetary Space, a booklet published in 1923 by Rumanian Professor Hermann Oberth. German rocketeers eventually constructed a liquid-fuel rocket strikingly similar to Goddard's. By 1942, under the direction of Walter Dornberger and Wernher Von Braun, it had evolved into the dread V2, the first space-age rocket. After the successful test-firing of the V2, Dornberger turned to Von Braun and shouted exultantly: "Do you realize what we accomplished today? Today the spaceship was born...
...course this is not the rationale usually offered for refusing student participation. Usually administrators' reasons are vague and unreal. Dean Von Stade has said, "Student participation just wouldn't be the same if it were institutionalized." Edward T. Wilcox, Director of The Program of General Education, has explained it more simply, "It's just out of the question, that's all." Dean Glimp just shrugs and says, "It's the principle of the thing. I guess we just see things a different way." Dean Watson has answered the question by saying, "Look, if students don't like this place, they...
Robert Tonis, chief of the University Police, said he did not know how many cards were taken in all. He called it a routine matter which would be reported to Dean Watson or Dean Von Stade...
...whipped. We've got to be cussed. ... He whipped us, but we needed whipping." This is no simple disciple of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch talking, but a professional football player trying to attain the mystical condition of "upness" or "winning attitude," which, according to American tradition, has to be artificially induced by alternate whippings and strokings from an older...
...days after the Lower Saxony elections, the National Democrats' leader, Adolf von Thadden, was forced to suspend a series of scheduled party rallies after some 1,500 students broke up his first appearance on the hustings in Bonn. Shouting "Get the Nazis out of here," the students drowned out Von Thadden's speech and chased him from the podium with tear gas. But despite the setback in Lower Saxony, most forecasts predict that in next year's West German general elections, the National Democrats will win at least 40 of the Bundestag's 496 seats...