Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While shocked or gleeful Britons were pondering these surely memorable words, good Squire Baldwin made further philosophic utterance, last week, at the 150th anniversary services in "The Little Church on City Road," famed London nucleus of some 106,000 Methodist churches which now dot the Globe...
...Shrewd Englishmen of "The City"-London's "Wall Street"-weighed carefully what was said by Britain's chemical tycoon, Lord Melchett, upon his return last week from hobnobbing in U. S. tycoon-dom (TIME, Oct. 29). "American prosperity is based upon two factors. One is the large amount of money earned during the War at the expense of Europe, the effect of which was to enable America to remodel her old plants and build new factories. The other is the great productivity of the American workman, based partly on the greater use of mechanical power and partly...
...will meet the Oxford Cambridge team on Soldier's Field July 12, 1929, according to an announcement made last night by W. J. Bingham '16, director of Harvard athletics. The last meeting between the English and American teams was won by the former on the Stamford Bridge track near London...
These things and many another happened during the first minute after 7 p.m., when a roguish sixty-second cyclone struck London, killed none, injured...
...favorite in Napoleon's body guard at St. Helena, and had the grim duty of protecting the dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled on him, the masses adored...