Word: normans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty miles from London stands an historic hill and on it stands an historic Cathedral. Its dark cruciform shape lowers over the countryside, its Norman towers stretch sadly to the sky. It was in the 12th century that workmen first piled stone on stone to fashion the Cathedral of St. Albans. Since then many workmen and architects have rebuilt, altered and toyed, but the Cathedral still stands much as it was first planned by an abbot who wished to honor a martyred saint...
Being liberal these days is simply a matter of being more liberal than the next man. There are some who believe that Herbert Hoover is a radical. There are others who believe that Herbert Hoover?and H. L. Mencken and Norman Thomas?are old fogies...
...pound class: Theodore Norman defeated R. R. Levin '32, by decision...
...high seas last week was Montagu Collet Norman, governor of the Bank of England. On his ship, the Aquitania, was $7,500,000 in gold coming from the Bank of England to American Exchange Irving Trust Co., Manhattan bank...
...Governor Norman has headed the Bank of England for eight years (the pound sterling was down to $3.20 when he took office, is now back to its normal $4.85) his movements arouse rumor, speculation. Financial sharps reported that he intended to visit Governor George L. Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, surmised that the two Governors might discuss some method of preventing further movements of gold from London to New York with out resorting to raising the British bank rate...