Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty, 19-year-old Nancy Wills of Bristol, Pa., this sort of routine has become almost second nature. So it has to the eleven other U.S. girls of the Friends Service Unit at Cuautla, Mexico. The unit is one of two such Quaker-run projects in Mexico; the other, for boys, is at Yautepec. At its annual meeting in Philadelphia last week, the American Friends Service Committee, in response to invitations from local Mexican officials, approved plans to carry on its practice of augmenting year-round units with at least five summer groups...
...lingered over its eight color pages of U.S. art. There were 25 paintings including four of nudes and all had appeared in the magazine before. Chief McMahon went to the district attorney, who agreed that some of the pictures were "indecent." Forthwith, in the counties of Nantucket, Dukes and Bristol, LIFE's issue was ordered off the newsstands. In Manhattan, LIFE Publisher Andrew Heiskell told reporters "ridiculous. . . . Certainly our readers would not wish to have a police chief decide what is, and what...
Said Lieut. General Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel, who headed a British military mission to Moscow during the war, in a speech at Bristol: "I think he [Stalin] was banished to the Crimea for a bit and then he came back and found that Molotov and Vishinsky and that...
Tallyho! Near Bristol, England, a fox led twelve headlong hounds to a cliff's edge, ducked safely into a hole as the dogs plunged over the brink...
...Judge" John Lowell, Harvard 1760, great-great-great-grandson of the original immigrant (from Bristol, England). A lawyer, banker, speculator, he made a fortune handling prize cases for local privateers and Tory estates confiscated during the Revolution...