Word: aberystwyth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply that more people were climbing, and having more accidents. Another explanation: the long, hot summer had dried out slopes, increased the number of avalanches. One 18-year-old Briton who spent three days trapped on a mountain ledge-and lived to tell about it -was Timothy Smiley of Aberystwyth...
...critic, for being "obviously obvious about the very obvious." His father, a Dutch banker in London, insisted that John read for the law before starting a writing career. John dutifully did, began writing Young Woodley while teaching English law and legal history at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth...
Died. Caradoc Evans, sixtyish, Welsh novelist and playwright (Taffy), bitter critic of his own countrymen; of pneumonia; in Aberystwyth, Wales. He was frequently burned in effigy and denounced from Welsh pulpits for his anti-Welsh sentiments (example: "A Welsh choir's preliminary cough is often the most musical part of its performance"), was also so secretive that his own wife did not know his exact...