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Word: signalling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Married. Signal Corps Sergeant Robert Hopkins, 23, thin-faced photographer son of Presidential Adviser Harry Hopkins (by his first marriage); and Brenda Stephenson, 18, daughter of a Lancashire engineer; in Perryvale, Middlesex, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 11, 1944 | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

Mayor Claude A. Lord of Pottsville, Pa. (pop. 24,530) boasted of the "first comprehensive plan for Victory Day." Sample: "The signal is the ringing of all church bells and the tying down of whistles and sirens for a continuous signal.. . . Plans have been made by the Mayor to start a big parade. . . . This will act as an outlet for people's enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready for V-Day? | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...Joachim von Ribbentrop and Viacheslav Molotov had signed the Russian-German pact in Moscow. Twelve hours after its ratification on Aug. 31, Hitler gave the signal that sent the German armored divisions rumbling across the frontier against the Polish cavalry, the Luftwaffe against the all but defenseless Polish cities. Thus, on the fifth anniversary of World War II, the war was back where it started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Five Years of War | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

After a while the little bright eye of the mirror blinked for the last time. Then through the glasses, U.S. sailormen saw a ragged figure, a pair of wigwag flags. The flags began to flirt the air in the unmistakable, bent-arm style of U.S. signal men. They spelled out the message: "I have information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: The Rescue of Tweed | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...wondered how he had made out in his examination for chief. Frequently and anxiously he wondered too about his wife and two young sons, who must have given him up for dead. He wondered, too, about the where abouts of the U.S. Navy and had flags ready to signal although "after the first year I began to lose hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: The Rescue of Tweed | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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