Word: surrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surrey", Professor Lowes, Sever...
...Bosanquet is aged 55. and was Bosanquet, the well-known cricketer who played for Middlesex and invented "googly" bowling, has given birth to a son at their home at Pyrford Common, Surrey...
...clear!" yelled Pilot Bernard Gully of Britain's Royal Air Force above the droning roar of his remaining motor one day last week. With its other motor out of commission from a backfire, the ungainly Vickers Virginia X bomber wallowed heavily 2,000 ft. over Surrey. While Pilot Gully fought to right the ship, four members of the crew crawled obediently back to the tail, bailed out one by one, jerked their parachute rip cords, floated peacefully earthwards. All but Aircraftsman Lewis (who broke his leg) landed safely. Flying Officer Page, the assistant pilot, stood by until the crippled...
...ball foursomes, the English game. Then in the middle of the singles a rain came driving down, it was just England in May, and the English ladies were at home. Observers predicted an English victory in the rain. On the drenched hills and dales of the Wentworth course in Surrey the three ranking Americans were rained under. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare took a routine beating 6 & 4 from England's poker-faced Joyce Wethered, rated the world's greatest woman golfer. Pretty Enid Wilson ran into the ground husky Helen Hicks, the gallery's grinning, clowning favorite...
...family eat and sleep in the house nearby, built also of sea boulders, but shaped after an old Tudor barn in Surrey which Mrs. Jeffers once admired. In the one-room attic the family sleep; downstairs they live their quiet family life. They have no telephone, no electric lights, no servants, but they entertain a few friends now & then. Poet Jeffers chose the bed downstairs by the sea-window for a good deathbed . . . when the patient daemon behind the screen of sea-rock and sky thumps with his staff, and calls thrice: "Come Jeffers...