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Word: yorktown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carry on Dr. Willhelmy's research, the Navy assigned Lieutenant Raymond Andrew Lowry of the Dental Corps. Last week 32-year-old Dr. Lowry, now detailed to the aircraft carrier Yorktown, made a report to the International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy which confirmed Dr. Will-helmy's findings, and offered a simpler remedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pilots' Teeth | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...music from popular tunes to grand opera, can name and date all the U. S. Presidents, bound every European country, tell the population of every large city in the world, names and distances from the earth of all the planets, the political effects of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also taught himself to read, write and use the typewriter, knows the Italian, French, German and Greek alphabets, reads people's minds. Interviewed by a sportswriter, George unhesitatingly predicted the winner of the Kentucky Derby: Stagehand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prodigy | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...plane and a tank. Spy Hofmann who spoke no English and whose orange-colored hair showed traces of dye, was arrested on the Europa with several letters she had been engaged to deliver, including one offering $1,000 for information about the Navy aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. Rumrich and Glaser had both been stationed during their Army service in the Canal Zone. Only document of importance which it was suggested they might have stolen was a copy of the secret codes of the Air Service, and Army authorities doubted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Espionage | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...rendering guard service to merchantmen, it did little more than the continental navy. It took the privateers, the third kind, to accomplish something. With two thousand ships, mostly from Massachusetts, commissioned by Congress, the privateers were almost as essential to the American cause as the French ships at Yorktown. Out of them the Cabots and Eliots made their fortunes, since the owners kept half of all prize money and divided the rest among the captain and crew. Besides being a more lucrative business than fighting in the continental navy, privateering was safer, as the ships were faster and the sailors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/2/1938 | See Source »

...England to be ordained an Anglican minister, since the Colony's laws required that all its ministers, no matter what their sect, be nominally of the Established Church. A member of that province's House of Burgesses, Muhlenberg fought in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Yorktown, was a major general at the close of the Revolution. A friend of Jefferson and Monroe, he represented Pennsylvania in Congress during its early years, was chosen as Pennsylvania's Senator but resigned to be district supervisor of revenue, which he thought a more useful post. John Muhlenberg died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Broadcasts | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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