Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forgotten Warning. By then Lloyd had served his time in Leavenworth and was trying to go straight. He finally wound up in Denver as the assistant manager of Charlie Klein's restaurant...
...Then Lloyd did something Ma had always warned her boys against: he got mixed up with a woman. He married a skinny, hysterical divorcee named Jennie Wynne. One morning two weeks ago, Jennie took one of her spells and Lloyd begged off work to take care of her. She met him inside the door of their trim, white cottage and blasted his head half off with a 20-gauge shotgun. Last week Charlie Klein closed up the restaurant and some 50 people went out to Brighton for the funeral of the only one of Ma's boys who ever...
...professors had no reason to worry: the questionnaires were still experimental. But by next year, they would be a major factor in deciding faculty promotions. A bad grade year after year might well lead to dismissal. Did that mean even Michigan's most cherished scholars? Said Dean Lloyd S. Woodburne: "If a man is a brilliant scholar, he must be a passable teacher. If a brilliant teacher, he must be a passable scholar." If he is all of one and none of the other, Michigan will want him no longer...
...every British schoolboy knows, famed Lloyd's of London began 260 years ago in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse, a gathering place of City insurance men. It grew into the world's most potent body of insurance underwriters, still heralds ship disasters by tolling its doleful Lutine Bell,* and through its 2,500 members writes policies on everything from the Queen Elizabeth to Betty Grable's legs...
...nearly so well known is its 200-year-old sister society, Lloyd's Register of Shipping. It rates the seaworthiness of the vessels that Lloyd's insures, keeps day-to-day tabs on 30,546 ships, and was the first to employ Ai to mean tops. (To get the rating, a ship's construction must be approved by Lloyd's surveyors...