Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Economist's influence stems from a journalistic ideal, first defined in 1843 by its creator, a liberal London banker named James Wilson, and restated a century later by Sir Geoffrey Crowther, editor from 1938 to 1956. The Economist's creed: "To hold opinions, to hold them strongly and if need be to express them strongly, but to have as few prejudices as possible." Following that creed, the Economist tries to be passionately nonpartisan on parties, passionately partisan on issues. Founding Editor Wilson argued spiritedly for free trade, and his successors have pounded relentlessly against import quotas...
Other officers, announced during the half of the Yale game to take office immediately, are: Assistant Managers, W. Bruce Shirk '62, of Kirkland House and Kansas City, Mo., Geoffrey B.S. Cavanagh '62, of Dunster House and Gloucester, Joseph F. McLean '62, of Dudley House and Dorchester, and John M. Flader '62, of Leverett House and Kohler...
...people, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, took up a Christian cudgel in defense of Nikita Khrushchev. Speaking to members of the British Council of Churches (representing many Protestant denominations), the archbishop decried the fact that no eminent Christian group has endorsed Khrushchev's total disarmament proposals at the U.N. (TIME, Sept. 28). Declared His Grace: "No Christian could possibly have put forward a better plan than this. Mr. Khrushchev could not more effectively have read the New Testament...
...Prioresse's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known stories of the Middle Ages. "In 1255," according to contemporary Chronicler Matthew Paris, "the Jews of Lincoln stole a boy called Hugh, who was about eight years old." After fattening him up, they were said to have staged a mock re-enactment of the Crucifixion, killing little Hugh to the accompaniment of fiendish tortures. "When the boy was dead," Paris concludes, "they took the body down from the cross, and for some reason disemboweled it; it is said for the purpose of their magic arts...
...Should everyone be immunized against lockjaw? Yes, answers Immunologist Dr. Geoffrey Edsall of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in a report to the A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs. Only 25% of the population has been immunized, yet the tetanus bacillus is present in many open wounds; thus the disease is a clear threat (an average 325 deaths a year) to anyone. The tetanus immunization shot, says Dr. Edsall, is not only one of the safest toxoids known to man, it is also among the most effective: the U.S. Army's tetanus rate...