Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sir Stafford Cripps's bony hands, Prime Minister Attlee this week entrusted Britain's economic fate. His official title was Minister of Economic Affairs. In reality, Sir Stafford had become Britain's economic dictator...
...shorter the skirt the better," was the feeling of shortage-minded Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's Minister of Economic Affairs. But he added quickly that, of course, "there must be some limits...
...believe the atom bomb Is a good weapon," concluded Physicist Sir Charles Darwin (grandson of the original), after some thought. His feeling about it: too inconvenient against scattered troops-and nobody would use the thing anyway, for fear of getting one back...
...Sir William Osler, probably the greatest medical teacher who ever lived, once warned his profession that the fate of the tubercular depended more on what they had in their heads than on what was in their chests. ... A germ or a peculiar condition of body cells is [not] the sum and substance of disease...
...Frank T. Ryan; Glore, Forgan & Co.; London's Hambros Bank, Ltd. and Robert Benson & Co., Ltd. Besides Stettinius and Grew, the individuals include the wartime OSS head, Major General William J. Donovan; Willys-Overland's Chairman James D. Mooney; Atlas Corp.'s L. Boyd Hatch, and Sir William Stephenson, British industrialist...