Sentence examples for 1939 from inspiring English sources

In 1939, she adopted a baby boy named Camillus.

But the rules didn't stop Michael Jackson, who bought the 1939 Best Picture Oscar for Gone With the Wind in 1999 for $1.5 million.

No 40: Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time (1939) I do frequently feel that the modern world is conspiring to ruin not just my current pleasures (drinking, chocolate, eating pesticides) but also remembered ones too.

Such questions were shattered by the outbreak of war in 1939.

Temple continued to dispense sweetness and light in Heidi (1937), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) and The Little Princess (1939), her first film in Technicolor.

Marysville's escape in 1939 was only part of the reason why the locals didn't flee on 7 February 2009.

JOHN HOWARD DAVIES 1939- (UK) Big break: Oliver Twist (1948) A short life: At nine, he played Oliver in David Lean's classic Dickens adaptation.

Before last February, the most deadly conflagration in the country's history occurred on Friday 13 January 1939, when 71 people died and nearly 5m acres of Victoria burnt.

"We give this island away and we might as well give away all our islands, including Manhattan," grumbles Captain John E. Norton, whose family has operated "puffin tours" to the island since 1939.Both countries base their claims to sovereignty over the island on interpretations of unclear historical treaties, beginning with the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American War of Independence.

A Polish minister once likened it, perhaps intemperately, to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939.An Estonian member of the European Parliament, Andres Tarand, claims that the pipeline will also disturb Soviet war graves dating from naval battles in 1941, when forces occupying Estonia fled Hitler's advance.

On 1 September 1939, Izbicki and his mother and father caught a train from Berlin to the Netherlands and then took a ferry to Harwich, arriving in England to see the British navy silhouetted against the dark coast.