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Word: alberts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Albert Kesselring-who was certainly in a position to know-gave his officers an estimate of the Allied offensive in Italy. In the scramble for retreat a copy was captured by the Fifth Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: Kudos from Kesselring | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...story was that he and a committee of four others had once tested Mrs. Duncan's spectral powers, tied her securely with handcuffs, sashcord and thread, watched her wriggle loose in three minutes. Concluded Swaffer: "There was ectoplasm, but no one appeared. Obviously she had been released by Albert, the spirit guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: There Was Ectoplasm | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...Albert, surnamed Stuart, a fun-loving Scotsman dead since 1909, was identified by other Duncanites as a disembodied soul who appeared frequently and clowned at the medium's sessions. These witnesses said that they had seen, shaken hands with, sometimes kissed: 1) Albert, 2) Mary, Queen of Scots, 3) a lipsticked, perfumed girl spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: There Was Ectoplasm | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Press Wireless officials were astonished by their brilliant coup. When sandy, slender Albert McGeagh landed in France with seven men and a mobile transmitter, he had no idea of bridging the Atlantic. His power was only 400 watts-little stronger than many a radio ham's shortwave outfit. He hoped merely to be first to get in touch with London, for relay to New York. But after a few tentative calls, Prewi's SWIF (Somewhere in France) got astounding news on its receiver: its signals were clearly pounding into the Prewi receiving station at Baldwin, L.I. Soon SWIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Twenty Minutes from Broadway | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...Bruce Craven went broke, and was charged with having stolen $6,500,000, Marco was the lawyer on the other side. When Uncle Bruce asked his friends how his trial was going, somebody handed him a package. It contained a revolver and a note: "This is the gun that Albert used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Southampton Story | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

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