Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Force: Vice Marshal Christopher Lloyd Courtney, Deputy Chief of Staff; Group Captain A. T. Harris; Wing Commander J. O. Andrews...
...backwashing around the base of the chamber. At one stage back pressure was observed to make combustion-produced carbon dioxide hotter than the actually burning gases. Pressure-curve recorders enable motormen to cor relate pressure with flame front propagation, a long-sought goal.- Dr. Gerald Mark Rassweiler and Lloyd Withrow of GM's Detroit laboratories...
...daughter during the Tsarist regime, studied with Kshesinskaya, the ballerina who was Nicholas II's mistress up to the time of his marriage. In London the fair-haired Riabouchinska had so many stage-door admirers that the Ballet's director, Colonel Vassily de Basil, rushed her to Lloyd's, insured her against marriage for several years to come...
From 212,000 essays, the judges last fortnight unanimously chose that of Lloyd Lewis, 17, of Plattsburg, Mo. Comedian Cantor excitedly hopped to a long distance telephone, called Lloyd Lewis from class, congratulated him, summoned him to Manhattan. When Winner Lewis arrived last week to collect his scholarship, he delighted Comedian Cantor by making first-rate human interest copy. Big-eared, slick-haired, sloe-eyed, and looking not un like his benefactor, Lloyd told how he had written his essay between chores on his father's 100-acre farm, how his Plattsburg teachers had dismissed it as "only fair...
...started his weekly broadcast, failed. He hastened to spill his news to a friend on the staff of the Newark Evening News. The News telephoned to Cantor. Within a few hours the comedian's office in Manhattan's Steinway Hall was popping with newshawks. To them brash Lloyd Lewis amazingly explained: "Sure it's President Kingdon's article. I didn't understand that it had to be an original piece. I thought you just were to send in the best essay you could find. If I had known, I would have written one myself." Dismayed...