Search Details

Word: englishman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

With a year's-end Treasury surplus, steadily rising exports and the first favorable balance of trade with the U.S. since 1865, the Tories were able last spring to free the pound, lower income and purchase taxes, even reduce by 2? the price of the Englishman's beloved pint. If Gallup is correct, the Tories might not only win a third consecutive term in office-something no party has yet accomplished in British history-but might even increase their House of Commons majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Out in Front | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...many places-in Madagascar, when you described the 1947-48 rebellion there; in Johannesburg, when you published your famous article about the dangers of living in that city; and in Kenya, during the Mau Mau emergency-I canceled my subscription and became one of your critics. As an Englishman, I felt that your reporting was a disservice to the British Commonwealth and the free world in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1959 | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

M.I.T. returned the check, referred the letter to its sales organization. An Englishman wrote that he was selling his home and coming to the U.S. to invest his money in mutual-fund shares and to get a job selling them. The president of an insurance company in New Delhi asked if he could come to study M.I.T.'s operations because "I feel that even in an underdeveloped economy there would be room for an institution of this type." One North Carolina man went to Boston, called on Robinson, said he owned $270,000 worth of stock in a Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...hurdles over Rex Van Rossum of Oxford, and either Landau or Yale's Jay Luck should take the lows. The 4 x 110 relay should go to the Americans. Either Blodgett or Yale freshman Oakley Andrews should easily win the pole vault, since Cambridge's Stuart Downhill, the best Englishman, has done only 12 ft., 5 1/2 in. Bill Markle of Yale should finish first in the shot put and his teammate Mike Pyle is the discus choice. All four high jumpers, Patrick MacKenzie and Peter Jackson of Cambridge and John deKiewiet and Marty Beckwith of Harvard are right around...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Harvard-Yale Team Works Out In Preparation for Track Meet With Oxford-Cambridge Tonight | 6/10/1959 | See Source »

Gideon of Scotland Yard (John Ford; Columbia), directed by John (The Informer, Mister Roberts) Ford, a Hollywood veteran who has made more than 100 movies, is based on a detective story (Gideon's Day) by John Creasey, a 50-year-old Englishman who is one of the most prolific novelists alive.* Their combined skill has produced a fresh and frantic thriller that amusingly wraps up a day in the life of a London policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | Next