Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineering firm of Giffels & Vallet (now Giffels & Rossetti). But the Averills lived far beyond the $25,000-a-year scale, with a chauffeured Cadillac, lavish wardrobes, a $300,000 estate in rural Michigan, a home in Florida and a $100,000 hunting lodge in Canada, built to resemble a British castle...
Discarding President Eliot's system of free electives, he began the present program of concentration and distribution, tutorial, and general examinations. He fought for the House system and the construction of the first seven Houses. He championed the British tradition of College Fellows until the University was convinced of its merit, and then, when the plan for Harvard House Fellows languished for lack of money, quietly supplied $1.5 million of his own to endow the program permanently...
...monsters from Paolozzi's studio bring close to $10,000, and the august British Council has picked 30 of his works as Britain's only sculpture entry in next year's Venice Biennale. They represent man scrambled, irrevocably...
When Nazi Panzer divisions overran The Netherlands in World War II, one of the places they headed for first was the great Philips company electric works at Eindhoven. But hours before their arrival, 25 top Philips scientists and executives slipped away via British destroyers, carrying with them vital secrets that contributed to radar and other wartime developments. Left behind, loyal Philipsmen cheerfully sabotaged what production the R.A.F. did not pulverize. Last week Philips President Frans Otten gave the latest progress report on Philips' amazing comeback. In the first nine months this year, sales of Philips' worldwide empire reached...
Hong Kong has been greatly helped by U.S. opposition to low-priced Japanese cotton imports. When the Japanese were forced to diversify and impose voluntary quotas, many big U.S. department-and variety-store buyers took their business to Hong Kong. The British colony's factories and sweatshops have tripled to an estimated 500 in the past four years, boosted the number of workers from 4,000 to 50,000. To compete in the cut throat world textile market, the Hong Kong garmentmakers' chief weapon has been cheap labor; the average daily wage...