dwight

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Definition von dwight im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

: A male given name derived from the surname

A surname

{i} male first name; family name; name of several towns in the USA

derived from the surname

American clergyman, author, and educator who was a leading supporter of Federalism and served as president of Yale University (1795-1817). His grandson Timothy (1828-1916) was also president of Yale (1886-1899). Bliss William Dwight Porter Dana James Dwight Eisenhower Dwight David Reginald Kenneth Dwight Macdonald Dwight Moody Dwight Lyman Morrow Dwight Whitney Weld Theodore Dwight

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Dwight D Eisenhower

(1890-1969) 34th president of the United States, military general during World War II

Dwight D Eisenhower

born Oct. 14, 1890, Denison, Texas, U.S. died March 28, 1969, Washington, D.C. 34th president of the U.S. (1953-61). He graduated from West Point (1915), then served in the Panama Canal Zone (1922-24) and in the Philippines under Douglas MacArthur (1935-39). In World War II Gen. George Marshall appointed him to the army's war-plans division (1941), then chose him to command U.S. forces in Europe (1942). After planning the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, and Italy, he was appointed supreme commander of Allied forces (1943). He planned the Normandy Campaign (1944) and the conduct of the war in Europe until the German surrender (1945). He was promoted to five-star general (1944) and was named army chief of staff in 1945. He served as president of Columbia University from 1948 until being appointed supreme commander of NATO in 1951. Both Democrats and Republicans courted Eisenhower as a presidential candidate; in 1952, as the Republican candidate, he defeated Adlai Stevenson with the largest popular vote to that time. He defeated Stevenson again in 1956 in an even larger landslide. His policy of support for Middle Eastern countries facing communist aggression, enunciated in the Eisenhower Doctrine, was a continuation of the containment policy adopted by the Harry Truman administration (see Truman Doctrine). He sent federal troops to Little Rock, Ark., to enforce integration of a city high school (1957). When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I (1957), he was criticized for failing to develop the U.S. space program; he responded by creating NASA (1958). In his last weeks in office the U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Cuba

Dwight David Eisenhower

a US politician in the Republican Party, who was President of the US from 1953 to 1961. Eisenhower was a general in the US army during World War II, and he became the commander of all the Allied forces in Europe, leading the attack on D-day in 1944. People informally called him Ike (1890-1969). born Oct. 14, 1890, Denison, Texas, U.S. died March 28, 1969, Washington, D.C. 34th president of the U.S. (1953-61). He graduated from West Point (1915), then served in the Panama Canal Zone (1922-24) and in the Philippines under Douglas MacArthur (1935-39). In World War II Gen. George Marshall appointed him to the army's war-plans division (1941), then chose him to command U.S. forces in Europe (1942). After planning the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, and Italy, he was appointed supreme commander of Allied forces (1943). He planned the Normandy Campaign (1944) and the conduct of the war in Europe until the German surrender (1945). He was promoted to five-star general (1944) and was named army chief of staff in 1945. He served as president of Columbia University from 1948 until being appointed supreme commander of NATO in 1951. Both Democrats and Republicans courted Eisenhower as a presidential candidate; in 1952, as the Republican candidate, he defeated Adlai Stevenson with the largest popular vote to that time. He defeated Stevenson again in 1956 in an even larger landslide. His policy of support for Middle Eastern countries facing communist aggression, enunciated in the Eisenhower Doctrine, was a continuation of the containment policy adopted by the Harry Truman administration (see Truman Doctrine). He sent federal troops to Little Rock, Ark., to enforce integration of a city high school (1957). When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I (1957), he was criticized for failing to develop the U.S. space program; he responded by creating NASA (1958). In his last weeks in office the U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Cuba

Dwight Eisenhower

(1890-1969) 34th president of the United States (1953-61), chief military commander of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War II

Dwight L Moody

born Feb. 5, 1837, East Northfield, Mass., U.S. died Dec. 22, 1899, Northfield, Mass. U.S. Protestant evangelist. Raised on a farm in Massachusetts, he moved first to Boston, where he converted to evangelical Christianity in 1856, and then to Chicago, where he prospered in business. He gave up business in 1860 and engaged in missionary work with the YMCA (1861-73). He founded Moody Church and preached in the slums, emphasizing literal interpretation of the Bible and the need to prepare for the Second Coming. In 1870 he teamed up with the hymn writer Ira D. Sankey (1840-1908), and they began a series of highly popular revival tours in Britain and the U.S. Moody founded the Northfield School (1879), the Mount Hermon School (1881), and the Chicago Bible Institute (1889; now the Moody Bible Institute)

Dwight Lyman Moody

born Feb. 5, 1837, East Northfield, Mass., U.S. died Dec. 22, 1899, Northfield, Mass. U.S. Protestant evangelist. Raised on a farm in Massachusetts, he moved first to Boston, where he converted to evangelical Christianity in 1856, and then to Chicago, where he prospered in business. He gave up business in 1860 and engaged in missionary work with the YMCA (1861-73). He founded Moody Church and preached in the slums, emphasizing literal interpretation of the Bible and the need to prepare for the Second Coming. In 1870 he teamed up with the hymn writer Ira D. Sankey (1840-1908), and they began a series of highly popular revival tours in Britain and the U.S. Moody founded the Northfield School (1879), the Mount Hermon School (1881), and the Chicago Bible Institute (1889; now the Moody Bible Institute)

Dwight Macdonald

born March 24, 1906, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Dec. 19, 1982, New York City U.S. writer and film critic. He graduated from Yale University. During World War II he founded the magazine Politics, which featured the work of such figures as André Gide, Albert Camus, and Marianne Moore. One of the first serious film critics, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker (1951-71) and reviewed films for Esquire magazine (1960-66). Politically, he moved from Stalinism through Trotskyism and anarchism to pacifism. During the Vietnam War he urged young men to defy the draft. His best-known collection of essays is Against the American Grain (1963)

Dwight W Morrow

born Jan. 11, 1873, Huntington, W.Va., U.S. died Oct. 5, 1931, Englewood, N.J. U.S. lawyer and diplomat. He practiced law in New York City (1905-14), helping draft a workers' compensation law (1911). He became a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. (1914-27) and organized the Kennecott Copper Corp. During World War I he was an adviser to the Allied Maritime Transport Council, and after the war he helped devise a national aviation policy. He served as ambassador to Mexico (1927-30). He briefly served in the U.S. Senate (1931) before his death. His daughter Anne married Charles A. Lindbergh

Dwight Whitney Morrow

born Jan. 11, 1873, Huntington, W.Va., U.S. died Oct. 5, 1931, Englewood, N.J. U.S. lawyer and diplomat. He practiced law in New York City (1905-14), helping draft a workers' compensation law (1911). He became a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. (1914-27) and organized the Kennecott Copper Corp. During World War I he was an adviser to the Allied Maritime Transport Council, and after the war he helped devise a national aviation policy. He served as ambassador to Mexico (1927-30). He briefly served in the U.S. Senate (1931) before his death. His daughter Anne married Charles A. Lindbergh

James Dwight Dana

born Feb. 12, 1813, Utica, N.Y., U.S. died April 14, 1895, New Haven, Conn. U.S. geologist, mineralogist, and naturalist. He graduated from Yale University in 1833. He joined a U.S. exploring expedition to the South Seas (1838-42), acting as a geologist and zoologist. His contributions to the American Journal of Science stimulated U.S. geologic inquiry. His research into the formation of the Earth's continents and oceans led him to believe in the progressive evolution of the Earth's physical features over time. By the end of his life he also came to accept the evolution of living things, as articulated by Charles Darwin. During his lifetime, and largely under his leadership, U.S. geology grew from a collection and classification of unrelated facts into a mature science

Theodore Dwight Weld

born Nov. 23, 1803, Hampton, Conn., U.S. died Feb. 3, 1895, Hyde Park, Mass. U.S. reformer. He left divinity studies to become an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society (1834). His pamphlets The Bible Against Slavery (1837) and Slavery as It Is (1839) helped convert figures such as James Birney, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe to the antislavery cause. He married his coworker Angelina Grimké (1838), and they directed schools and taught in New Jersey and Massachusetts. In 1841-43 Weld organized an antislavery reference bureau in Washington, D.C., to assist congressmen seeking to repeal the gag rule restricting the consideration of antislavery petitions in Congress

William Dwight Porter Bliss

born Aug. 20, 1856, Constantinople, Tur. died Oct. 8, 1926, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. social reformer. The son of U.S. missionaries, he graduated from Hartford Theological Seminary and held Congregationalist and Episcopalian pastorates. An advocate of Christian socialism, he organized the first such group in the U.S. in 1889. He lectured widely on labour and social reform and compiled many books, including the Encyclopedia of Social Reform (1897)

Silbentrennung

Dwight

Türkische aussprache

dwayt

Aussprache

/ˈdwīt/ /ˈdwaɪt/

Etymologie

() Probably from a Middle English female name Diot, a pet form of Dionysia, the feminine form of Dionysius.

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