Search Details

Word: isaac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Tunis was more tickled to see the British First Army than the Rev. Isaac Dunbar, British rector of St. George's Church.* The victory ended Mr. Dunbar's 167 days of hide-&-seek with the Nazis and Italians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Churchman Goes Underground | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...ordeal drew to its close, Gandhi had the Koran and Vedic hymns and verses from the Gita read to him. He also called for his favorite hymn (by British Author Isaac Watts): When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. Each day he was massaged and cared for as tenderly as an incubator baby. Around his scrawny shoulders was a red and black checked homespun blanket. On the wall of his small, high-ceilinged room in the Aga Khan's gruesomely Victorian Palace in Poona was a Hindu calendar with the motto: "O Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Only One Answer | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

London admitted: losses at Oran and Algiers included the Netherlands destroyer Isaac Sweers, the small British aircraft carrier Avenger (a Lend-Lease converted U.S. merchant ship), three British destroyers, five other small vessels and two ex-U.S. Coast Guard cutters, the Walney and Hartland, which, licked by flames, crashed through a boom at Oran into the inner harbor and landed troops before they sank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Supplementary Report | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Rear Admiral Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Callaghan was killed in this action, the third U.S. admiral to lose his life in battle (the others: Rear Admirals Isaac Kidd and John Wilcox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Victory off Guadalcanal | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...ISAAC KELLEY BECKES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Previous | 362 | 363 | 364 | 365 | 366 | 367 | 368 | 369 | 370 | 371 | 372 | 373 | 374 | 375 | 376 | 377 | 378 | 379 | 380 | 381 | 382 | Next