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Word: alberts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hubert's new friend was Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, ex-convict, ex-explorer, only living man who ever claimed that he led a party to the North Pole on foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Sullivan County, N. Y., to a German immigrant named Koch, Frederick Albert Cook wa's born in 1865. He worked his way through medical school, hung out his shingle in Brooklyn. Interested by the plans for Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891, he volunteered, was accepted. Later Cook went on a Belgian Antarctic expedition and won the admiration of Roald Amundsen. Cook's other expeditions were to Greenland, Alaska, Mount Everest, Borneo. He was rated a popular and able explorer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...entertainer. From Pat many U. S. radio listeners have learned for the first time of stubborn old Sam Small, who held up the Battle of Waterloo until the Duke of Wellington, no less, soft-soaped him into picking up his musket. They know, too. of young Albert Ramsbottom who got et by a lion at Blackpool zoo, moving his outraged parents to lament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Templeton Time | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Private Life. Two years after her coronation Wilhelmina married a dashing young lieutenant of the Prussian Guards, Henry Wladimir Albert Ernst, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Prince Henry was fond of meeting up with sea captains and artists, and led a hard life playing second fiddle for 33 years in a severely formal and moral court. The Queen was far from happily married, and the Prince was far from popular with the strict Dutch. Wilhelmina came very near dying from a miscarriage. Her only child, Juliana, the present Heir to the Throne, was born in 1909. The Prince Consort died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Still waiting for U. S. citizenship: Labor Leader Harry Bridges, German exiles Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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