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...Bath. But now one hardly knows anyone." Echoed a Bath specialist: "In a few years Bath will become so crowded and impossible that any person of quality will naturally go abroad for treatment." Was Beau Nash turning in his grave? Probably not; he used to pass his six-quart beaver among the swells to collect money for a mineral-water hospital available to all comers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One Hardly Knows Anyone | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...hold the cost of living down, -the government has subsidized milk, meat and wheat. Milk, for which the producers get 8? a quart, is sold to the public for 9?. Rents have been under strict control but are shortly due for some increase. Wages have also been held even; the government has set aside several wage increases proposed by labor-management boards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: For Plenty or for Socialism | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...University of North Carolina's Archibald Henderson, 70, genial mathematician, historian of the South, drama critic, biographer, friend of Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw. Henderson bought ink by the quart for his own use, once turned out five books in one year ("When I get tired, I just go from one to another"). His advice to students: "The university offers you, not education, but only the pursuit of education-forever and ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

brace dozen gross quart quarto quire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Best by Test | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...Answers: saga, Sibelius, adjacent, Merino, Ezekiel, Monroe, humerus, quart, 2, 13, tare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Best by Test | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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