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Word: bristols (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indigestible. In Bristol, England, a divorce was granted to Arthur lies, who testified that shortly after his wife refused to eat with him he found her serving lunch-in-bed to a strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Cartoonists! Budding genil of the Bristol board! Are you slaving unrewarded on House dance posters? Wasting your talent on marginal notes and hand-painted neckties? Have you sold your soul to the intellectual red-light district on Bow Street? Does your radio sound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ink, Beer Mix At Crime Comp | 4/13/1948 | See Source »

...Hello. In Bristol, England, Butcher William Eddy, arrested for brandishing a meat saw and a carving knife on High Street, declared that he was just waving to a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...threading the tricky passages of the Yangtze. Through the war, he was one of the Royal Canadian Navy's ace navigators. On Atlantic convoy duty, said he, "the Admiral thought nothing of going to sleep while I took the squadron through the Smalls" (reefs at the entrance to Bristol Channel). With Littler as navigator, Canada's first cruiser, the Uganda, steamed 80,000 miles and never missed a rendezvous. Littler gave radar much of the credit, called it the most valuable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE SERVICES: The Blind Eye | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

About an hour after the takeoff, Master Sergeant Sutre Paijkull, in a rear seat, idly watched one of the Bristol's two propellers bite into a milky fog. Through a sudden rift he saw a mountain ahead, heard Chief Pilot Nils Werner scream: "Oh, my God." The next sounds he remembered were the soft voices of Italian peasants poking about the wreckage which pinioned him in pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR AGE: In a South Wind | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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