Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geoffrey Crowther, editor of the famed London Economist and of Transatlantic, the new London monthly which labors to explain the U.S. to the British, said: "American listeners should realize that we are more frightened of an American depression after the war than we are of a British depression. We want to be sure that America will not allow another gigantic depression...
British expert G. Geoffrey Smith, whose authoritative work, Gas Turbines and, Jet Propulsion for Aircraft, will soon be published in the U.S. by Aerosphere, Inc., makes this distinction: a rocket carries its own combustion mixture, including oxygen; a jet-propulsion device has fuel but draws oxygen for combustion from the surrounding atmosphere...
Lots of Englishmen take to the U.S. like ducks to water, but few learn to quack the idiom as fast or as well as Geoffrey Bridson has. Redhaired, red-mustached, bouncy little Bridson (pronounced Brideson), 33, has for the past four months been interpreting the U.S. to Britons via BBC. He has done so with uncommon perception and success. Onetime insurance salesman, poet, at present Geoffrey Bridson is BBC's best known writer-producer-director...
...Manchester-born Englishman who could not go to college because he had to earn a living, Geoffrey Bridson got so bored selling insurance that "I just found myself starting poetry." He became a protege of T. S. Eliot, began writing for BBC eight years ago. One of BBC's most prolific writer-producers, he has many a notable show (The March of the '45, Transatlantic Call, etc.) to his credit...
...Said Britain's Bishop of London, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher: "There is concern about the landslide in sexual morality...