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Canada leads the foreign countries with 45 students and China is no mean second with 32. Japan musters only 5, surpassed by 15 Englishmen, 12 Frenchmen, 11 Germans, and 6 Turks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unusual Countries Furnish Record-Breaking Numbers Of Foreign Born Students | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...everyone knows, George V once almost died of pneumonia and long suffered from bronchitis (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928 et seq.}. This experience magnified in his mind the dread which all Englishmen have of respiratory diseases, chief causes of disability in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fingard's Fix | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...Rhode Island received liberal charters guaranteeing them freedom of worship, democratic rights, while England itself remained in the grip of repression for another quarter-century. Pious Rhode Islanders believed it divine mercy resulting from their steadfast adherence to God's laws. But shrewd Professor Andrews thinks that Englishmen were already secretly opposed to religious repression, willing to experiment abroad in granting rights they would not concede at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Origins | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...cocktails. That realistic Mrs. Simpson ever thought she could be Queen of England without a tremendous struggle is unlikely, and there is no reason to think she ever believed her "Boysy" would fight rather than run away to have more or less fun the rest of their lives. Englishmen bore her, English women him. Her Maryland relatives last week were reported heartbroken, had been sure they would have best seats at the Coronation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Duchess of Windsor | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Race (TIME, Feb. 9, Sept. 14, 1931). In 1933 she financed a flight over Mt. Everest to prove to India that "not all Englishmen are degenerate." Lately, the sympathies of "Britain's Fairy Godmother" have been aroused by the sorry case of handsome Captain George Black ("Dod") Orsborne and his brother Jim. From Great Grimsby on the Humber, last All Fools' Day, the Orsbornes and two other fishermen ran away with the new trawler Girl Pat, chugged south for an unknown destination (TIME, June 8 et seq.). Three months later, after a wild, zigzag cruise across the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Brothers' Barratry | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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