Word: ist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Field, now 48, enlisted as a private in the ist Illinois Cavalry in 1917, was transferred to the 12 2nd Field Artillery, 33rd Division, rose through the ranks to a captaincy by war's end. In France, he got into the hottest part of the fighting in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. The Tribune itself praised his war record when he came home in 1919, declared he had "won the love" of his regiment. The Chicago News's famed front line correspondent, Robert J. Casey, who was a fellow officer with Field in the 122nd, describes...
...churches and schools on the wild New Guinea coast, and they had raised the black New Guinea children in the ways of God. They were Germans, of course, but they were Lutheran Germans. When they sang, their song was some fine old Lutheran hymn like Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress...
...founder of the Nazi Party died last week in Munich. His name was not in the official Party register or in Wer Ist's (the German Who's Who). His name was Anton Drexler...
...desk in Kiel, hardworking Karl Doenitz can, by twisting his close-cropped head, ponder a wall portrait of prong-bearded old Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, World War I evangelist of unrestricted U-boat warfare. Inscribed on the portrait he could read the U-boat credo: Die Tat ist alles-The deed is all. In other words: the only thing that matters in U-boating is the bacon you bring home...
Sometimes the men in the Nazi uniforms stopped civilians on the street and asked "Der o'glock, vat ist?" The civilians told them the time of day, but it did not seem as if they really knew...