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Word: angells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This performance was of interest to 512 former crew members of the scuttled German liner Columbus, sent last fortnight from New York's Ellis Island to be held at San Francisco's Angel Island until passage home could be arranged for them. They had been booked on the Japanese Tatuta Maru but reports of British war vessels waiting offshore to grab them changed this plan. In charge of getting the Columbus men back to the Fatherland is Adolf Hitler's crony. Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Consul General at San Francisco. Waterfront talk was that, now that the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Homeseekers | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...legally signed To erect in Copley Square my statue designed To honor the hero whose cry of alarm Aroused every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm. Alas! No statue now graces Copley Square. 'Tis enough to make even an angel swear, But being only human I refuse to despair. And I hope that means will be found somewhere So after the lapse of many a year Due honor be paid to Paul Revere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Fighting north of Lake Laatokka in Finland, a Finnish officer and nine men saw an angel in the sky facing Russia, its arms outstretched to protect the Finns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Miracles | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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