Word: waldemar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chapter 6: Sabotage. In Berlin Captain Stevens got busy making confessions. He admitted 15 cases of sabotage on German, Italian, Japanese ships, most of which were actually pulled off by a certain designer of infernal machines named Waldemar Potzsch, a German-born British spy. When Potzsch was arrested in Denmark, Captain Stevens had the job of persuading the Danes to let him go, even though he was found to possess plans of a large German ship...
...very highest type of swimming competition was seen in Ann Arbor Saturday night when Michigan took Yale by a 53 to 22 score. Waldemar Tomski, of the Wolverines, turned in three incredibly fast sprint races...
...qualifying rounds and "knockout" elimination matches, the field of 28 teams narrowed down to two. Finalists were the defending champions, the Four Aces (Oswald Jacoby, David Burnstine, Howard Schenken, Merwin Maier and alternate Sherman Stearns), and a quartet of Donor Harold Vanderbilt's old teammates, headed by Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz. At the end of the 72-deal final, the Four Aces won the Cup for the fourth time in the past five years. But they came close to losing when, on the next to the last deal, two members of the team went down 200 points...
...Vienna, School Teacher Waldemar Boden was sentenced to two months in jail for forcing his pupils to swallow half-inch iron nails as "proof of their loyalty...
Idea for a stool came to him five years ago when he was given a concerto by Composer Antonio Scontrino who made such technical demands that few double-bass players have dared to wrestle with it. Waldemar Giese was not to be daunted...