Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen have been graded in regard to their posture, and in that year over 80 percent were rated as poor and 35 percent as very poor. Since that time there has been very great interest in the work of body mechanics, which was inaugurated in the University by Dr. Lloyd T. Brown '03, and carried out by Mr. William H. Geer, and his associates. In the Fall of 1923, 68 percent were rated as poor and over 14 percent as very poor. This sudden drop in percentage is due probably to the interest which secondary schools are manifesting in posture...
Liberal and Conservative Parties ran amuck last week on the question of tariff preferences. The Liberals would have none of it, the Conservatives, who had just won a by-election in West Derbyshire, were all for it. Messrs. Asquith and Lloyd George decided that the Liberal Party had better remain free. Later Premier Baldwin ordered a committee which was preparing a protection plan to discontinue its work...
...marine insurance firm, Lloyd's calls for considerable admiration. During the present year it has kept track of 15,000 ships and published the fate and whereabouts of every one of them in Lloyd's List, the official bulletin. But as a general insurance firm Lloyd's is even more famous. In Britain it insures anything from the weather to eggs hatching in incubators. To Americans it is famous for having insured against Harry K. Thaw's conviction, for having insured a baseball team against losing a World's Series, for having issued policies...
About 1670 Edward Lloyd kept a coffee house in Tower Street which catered to seafaring men. He decided to start a little 'bulletin called Lloyd's News, parent of the present Lloyd's List, in which he chronicled the goings and comings of sailing craft in the Port of London. This proved an immense success and in 1692 he moved his coffee house to more spacious quarters in Lombard Street and expanded the bulletin to include general information. Parliament became annoyed because Edward Lloyd, so it is said, knew more than it; the paper was suppressed...
...brilliant career as a designer and builder of aircraft. His Messenger (a tiny single seater) came into most general use in the Army Air Service. Sperry used it to commute between his home and factory on Long Island. On a recent visit to England, his electioneering by plane for Lloyd George attracted general attention. True to his profession, and his convictions, he planned to make his business trips on the Continent and his Channel-crossing by air. Leaving Pett (near Rye on the South Coast of England) last week, he was seen to fly to sea in perfect weather...