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Word: adolf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister was in a plum-pudding mood. He joshed Adolf Hitler for a big mistake: "He forgot about the winter. There is a winter, you know, in Russia. For a good many months the temperature is apt to fall very low. There is snow, there is frost and all that. Hitler forgot about this Russian winter. He must have been very loosely educated. We all heard about it at school. But he forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill's Good Cheer | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...there were 2,500,000 new U.S. babies, and 1,500,000 new brides. Some of the brides are already mothers and lots more U.S. babies are on the way. In February 1941 the U.S. birthrate hit 20.2, passing Germany's for the first time since 1933, when Adolf Hitler began encouraging motherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Motherhood Boom | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Inter-House hardball and softball leagues are going to be under the direction of Adolf Samborski '26, director of intramural athletics. There also will probably be some A. A. U. track meets, but no dual meets will be scheduled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIG ATHLETIC PLAN SET FOR THIS SUMMER | 5/6/1942 | See Source »

...prep-school status of Huntington doesn't mean that the game will be any push-over, however, for Coach Adolf Samborski warned that the visiting team has had an excellent season, and boasts two fiery pitchers and a string of heavy sluggers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLING NINE TO FACE HUNTINGTON | 5/6/1942 | See Source »

...Vichy forces which Pierre Laval might bend to Adolf Hitler's purposes are anything but known quantities. Vichy's army strength in North and West Africa is a public mystery. Germany is said to have allowed Vichy to build up an air force of 1,000 planes, but its caliber is highly dubious. And although the size of the Vichyfrench fleet is fairly well established, both its fighting temper and condition are question marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laval's Artilery | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

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