Search Details

Word: vigils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...from Prince George, B.C. flew provincial police, to begin a vigil at outpost fur sales. Soon an Indian tried to sell 16 marten pelts which had been cured not as Indians cure them, shapeless and wrinkled, but the white man's way, long and smooth. Police arrested 22-year-old Alex Prince, charged him with the double murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: BRITISH COLUMBIA: At Deadman's Creek | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Mary Patricia Chalifoux went to Montreal with her two children to begin a vigil. Her husband, Dieppe-Raider D'Amour Chalifoux, is in a Nazi prison camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: New Wives | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...faded blue skies over the Marshalls, death kept a steady vigil. Swarms of Zeros raced up to meet the U.S. raiders. Japanese gunnery improved. (Commented a U.S. general dryly: "Jap gunners are getting more practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Deadly Dividends | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...Company Dog girds its loins and strides on in its vigil to keep John Harvard's Yard secure, it becomes increasingly apparent that the Company smoker Friday will not be amiss. The smoker can be sandwiched in between watches very nicely, albeit the Hasty Pudding Club is barred...

Author: By Ens. R. D. semple, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

...Night Vigil. At 9:30 Captain Alan Morehouse, once a schoolteacher in Darien, Conn., led 90 men of K Company out on the road and headed over the slope of our hill down into a ravine and up toward another hill in front of Troina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: THE FALL OF TROINA | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Next