Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intensely symbolic scene was laid in a great hall of Bristol University one day last week. It was the day after a dreadful raid. Not many yards from the hall, high walls were still tottering and crumbling...
Sole surviving J-boat last week was Harold S. Vanderbilt's four-year-old Ranger, last Cup defender, high, dry and huddled up at her birthplace, the famed Herreshoff yards at Bristol...
...their reconnaissance planes report where each convoy arriving in Britain anchored, and then sent bombers to try to annihilate it. This was the mission of recent raids (many of them two nights in a row) on Swansea and Cardiff in Wales, Glasgow in Scotland, and Hull, Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton in England. Even in London, which last week received its worst raid in six months, the primary target was the docks. In each port the Germans did not mind if there was tremendous ancillary damage to houses, lives, communications and morale. (In the second night's raid on Plymouth...
Professor Cadbury, who was investigating conditions for the American Friend's Service Committee, spent three weeks of his stay in London. He also visited other bombed cities such as Bristol, Birmingham, Coventry, and Southampton...
...Power character, Ben, is a big, hot-blooded, black-haired Bristol bastard whose story is as old and formal as legend : the proud but-for-base-birth heir-to-the-manor who a) vows vengeance against his humiliators, b) wanders and adventures far, c) returns rich, to deal with friends and foes according to their deserts...