Search Details

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


Usage:

They smashed at Copenhagen's docks and shipyards. They played havoc at a favorite old spot, the many-railed freight yards and junction of Hamm. At Bremen they smacked the big Focke-Wulf aircraft plant where a new twin-tailed fighter with "swallowed" engine is being turned out, said to fly 400 m.p.h. Each side was "softening up" the other and a report from far-off Turkey carried by travelers from Germany indicated the kind of damage both sides were already suffering. According to the accounts the Rhineland populace was thoroughly terrorized by R. A. F.'s incessant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Invasion Delayed | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...order to make air-minded but temporarily air-sated readers even mildly interested in the twelfth transatlantic flight in the past month (Lufthansa's four-motored Focke-Wulf "Condor" Brandenburg, from Berlin to New York City and return), newspapers were obliged to run banner headlines about SECRECY. Even this ruse failed to excite thorough readers. Day before, they had seen an Associated Press dispatch announcing the exact hour of departure, predicting the time of arrival within three hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Secret Flight | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Once Animal Psychologist Otto Wulf, author of a book about Kurwenal, set him a problem: "On the street there are nine houses. I live in the fifth house, reckoning from the park. When coming toward the park, in which house do I live?" Kurwenal thought a moment, yapped: "Fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Intentionally Witty | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...broad forehead, squinting eyes, a huge nose. She has trained many a dog, written many an article on the soul life of animals. Boldly she called scholars to "expose" her work, boasting that Kurwenal would perform when she was out of sight and earshot. Müller, Wulf, Plate and others went to her Weimar home to scoff, stayed to be yapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Intentionally Witty | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...entire colony in terror through two Arctic winters. Semenchuk indulged in long drunken orgies with a thick-headed sledge driver named Startzev, raped Eskimo girls, sent indignant Dr. Wulfson off on a long sledge expedition, sent Startzev after him to kill him, then tried to poison Startzev. The widow Wulf-son managed to administer a life-saving antidote to Startzev. Mrs. Semenchuk whipped Eskimo men, who were first forbidden to fish, then denied use of the Island's provisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Crazy Governor | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | Next