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Word: bumpus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Threat of Piracy. Branching out in new directions, Maxwell this year bought Britain's largest typesetting firm, the famed London bookshop of John and Edward Bumpus, and a subscription-book subsidiary of Press Lord Cecil King's International Publishing Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: To Halt the Retreat | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...favor and affection which they bear toward their parents." A few weeks before, Lord Home shed his own title to become just plain Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and that made the noble bit a little conspicuous for the children. Meriel took a proper commoner job as salesgirl at Bumpus, London's venerable bookshop. A photographer caught her melding into her new scenery during lunch hour, going shopping like everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 15, 1963 | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

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