Word: surreys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the crwth, the virginal, the rebec, the fipple, the lute, the dulcimer, the zither and many another old and forgotten instrument was to be heard in the little Surrey town of Haslemere where 76-year-old Arnold Dolmetsch was giving the tenth annual Haslemere Festival of Ancient Music...
...Last week Mr. Lloyd George, 71, lay ill of a chill at his home in Churt, Surrey...
...poisoned his finger. No. 6 came down with influenza. A new man was seated at bow a week before the race. But these were not the least of Oxford's misfortunes. On race day last week, Cambridge won the toss for lanes, chose the wind-sheltered Surrey side of the river, an important advantage on the choppy water that afternoon. Primed by a robust meal of steak and beer the night before, the Oxonians carried their shell from the boathouse; as challengers, set it in the water first; pulled off sweaters and scarfs; waited. The Cambridge boat was ready...
Died. Sir John Harvard Biles, 79, "greatest living authority on naval architecture," onetime naval constructor of the British Admiralty, Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights; in Virginia Water, Surrey, England...
...Surrey", Professor Lowes, Sever...