Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RONALD MATTHEW...
...Matthew Lukaszewski, while asleep, jumped from his second-story window, rolled off an awning, broke his wrist and walked five blocks before pursuing relatives awoke...
...Eighty-Second. In 1940, U.S. airborne divisions were only a fanatical idea. Two years later, the promising 82nd Infantry Division (Sergeant Alvin York's outfit in World War I) was turned into an airborne division, with Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway in command. At the same time the 101st Airborne was newly activated under Major General William Carey Lee, the man who fathered the radical doctrine. The two outfits began intensive training...
Scion of the Ages. Hirohito was born in the lying-in chamber of Tokyo's Aoyama Palace on April 29, 1901. Japan itself was suffering a rebirth. It was 48 years since U.S. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry had opened the ports of the Land of the Gods to U.S. trade and western ideas. Four years hence Japan would defeat vast, backward Russia and emerge as a foremost Pacific power...
When the U.S. Army entered Weimar, it found that the mortal remains of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had disappeared on an iron-age pilgrimage never dreamed of by Poet Matthew Arnold. Also missing from its place beside Goethe in the city's Friedhof (cemetery) was the coffin of Goethe's great friend and fellow poet, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller...