Word: frederiksen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regard to Marshal Timoshenko's ancestry, I can personally endorse Professor Frederiksen's statement (in your Feb. 2 issue), since my wife is the granddaughter of the late engineer Hughes...
...Timoshenkos (including the Marshal) are as Ukrainian-Russian as vodka. The name is as common in the Ukraine as Smith is in this country and is derived from Timosha which is the diminutive of Timofei (Timotheus). O. J. Frederiksen's "Hughes-ovka" (TIME, Feb. 2) is a tour de force. There are a number of hamlets scattered all over the Kuban country and the North Caucasus with the prefix "Youz" or "Yuz" which is Turco-Tartar for "hundred" and denotes the original post of a Sotnja or a troop of one hundred Cossacks. The language of the Cossacks...
...FREDERIKSEN...
...TIME, Jan. 5, reported a Welsh schoolteacher's statement that Timoshenko's father was a Welsh technician living in Russia. The claim is dubious, but Professor Frederiksen's interesting point tends to support...