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Word: londoners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a trip, observers thought, would be of the very biggest empire service, since it would enable all Canadians to see what a very satisfactory sort of man lives at No. 10 Downing Street, London, and performs the great task which Britons proudly term "muddling through." Typical of friendly Canadian comment last week was an item boxed on the front page of the Toronto Globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Empire Tour | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...sturdy plant. Let us desist pulling it up to inspect the roots. England is as wholly committed to disarming as the U. S. Let nations simply understand and respect one another's practical requirements.?Sir Arthur Willert of the British Foreign Office, long U. S. correspondent cf the London Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rollins Boom | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...last week from London came gossipy reports of the jokes he told during his recent visit there. Once a Negro preacher introduced him to his Negro congregation as "a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." Once a woman parishioner, disagreeing with him, shouted angrily: "I am a Christian woman which it is evident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Manning Abroad | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...perfect the apparatus required three years of experimenting by Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Clifton M. Tuttle of Eastman Kodak Co. research laboratories. The pictures they secured were like those of growing cancer cells recently reported from London (TIME, July 25). What had taken three minutes to show had taken 44 hours to photograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Moving Bacteria | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...English country doctor complained thus to the London Daily Express of a brazenness such as every U. S. physician has encountered: "Often while I drive to or from a case I happen to come to the scene of a road accident in which frequently someone is more or less injured. Naturally, being a physician, usually known to someone in the attending group, frequently a policeman, I am asked to give assistance. Over and over again I have treated and bandaged a victim, carried him off in my car, or had him conveyed to the nearest hospital. I have attended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In England | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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