Kolff
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He was hired on the recommendation of his predecessor at Princeton, Butch van Breda Kolff, who had coached Mr. Carril at Lafayette and went on to a long coaching career in the NBA.
From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2022
Peter Joseph Carril was born on July 10, 1930, to Spanish immigrant parents in Bethlehem, Pa. He played at Lafayette College under a venerable coach in Butch Van Breda Kolff.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2022
About 225 people turned out to see the 45-minute film at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship sanctuary in Port Townsend, according to Kees Kolff, chair of the fellowship’s Green Sanctuary committee.
From Washington Times • Mar. 25, 2017
There really was a Cornelius G Kolff ferry, which carried passengers for 36 years before becoming a floating dorm for inmates at the Rikers Island prison.
From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2016
The first article, cotton cloth, is most in demand and M. Kolff suggests that a European merchant might carry on an advantageous trade here.
From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George
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