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...calm profusion, Britons went to the polls. The result was a sharp and decisive victory for Great Britain's Conservative Party and the first solidly entrenched Brit ish government in the past five years. In smartly winning his gamble on a well-timed quick election, Sir Anthony Eden won his own five-year mandate to govern Great Britain under the banners of en lightened Toryism, and his Conservatives more than trebled the thin parliamentary majority Eden had inherited from Sir Winston Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: On with the Job | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

While the Midland diggers were proceeding with commendable caution, the relics found at Piltdown (and accepted for years without sufficient tests) had a second and more thorough exposing by Brit ish scientists. Not only the human remains but the animal ones, too, were proved to be fakes. The flint implements found with "Piltdown man" had been stained, and the bone implement had been shaped with a steel knife. The perpetrator of the erudite hoax is still unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Midland Man | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...rich undersea lands on its side of the Gulf. But there is no authority for such an interpretation of international law, which has always con sidered that the high seas belong to all nations in common. As far as precedent goes, there is nothing to prevent the Brit ish, for instance, from building an oil navy on the Clyde and sailing it down to drill for oil just outside Louisiana's three-mile limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: THE OILMEN & THE SEA | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

British Israelites are partial to an unorthodox philological theory that holds the English language to be derived from Hebrew. Thus bar (son) reappears in the British "bairn"; peri (fruit) in "berry"; katon (little) in "kitten." The word "British" is simply a rendering of Berit-ish (covenant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: C-Day at the Pyramid | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Abe Burrows) is a period musical in the good but also the bad sense of the word. It often captures the rakish, even the Lautrec-ish animation of Paris in the '905, but it has often, too, the feeble plotting and labored prattle of memory-book musicomedy. Actually a number of things in it merit high praise, but these do not include such trifles as the music, the lyrics or the libretto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, may 18, 1953 | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

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