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Fannies. Affiliated with the WATS are several thousand ambulance driving "Fannies" (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), an old outfit founded in 1909, motorized in 1916, never disbanded. Their chief is the Countess of Athlone and some of their present ambulances are converted Harrod's delivery vans...
...Because of the intense feeling against the General," announced 6 ft. 5 in. Sheriff Evan Harrod of Henry County, "and the murmuring that some of Mrs. Taylor's kinfolk are preparing for any emergency, we are going to be ready to repel any attempt against the General's life...
This new department, which is modeled after the Harvard Business School to some extent, was opened at the suggestion of and with the financial support of several important English companies including Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., British Xylonite Company, Standard Telephone, Harrod's, Selfridge and Company, Ltd., and Lewis's. At the request of those concerned in the direction of the new venture, Professor McNair was granted leave of absence for the first half of the current academic year in order to assist in its establishment. In addition to giving a course in Retail Distribution during the Michaelmas term...
George N. Clark, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, is a representative, and is the editor of the "English Historical Review." The last two men are Henry R. Harrod, M.C., student of Christ Church and Kenneth Sisam, B.Litt., M.A., Merton College, as secretary...
...since 1923, and because this one was rated as no better than other Oxford crews the people on the banks could hardly credit what they saw. Oxford slid out rowing quickly and smoothly, a half-length ahead in a dozen strokes, a length ahead after the first minute. Past Harrod's wharf and under Hammersmith Bridge Oxford was in front and round the bend into rough water and a wind that thinned the falling drops. Over the flat banks of the Stork, that tiny island past the first bridge, the wind spread whitening fans upstream, and Robert Swartwout...