Word: surreys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expert, Stanley S. Surrey, has become Jermiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law--the post which he held at Harvard from 1950 to 1961, when he left to join the Treasury Department...
...serve the purpose for which people used to keep horses: to be able to go off alone where automobiles cannot go. But you can keep the Coot in the garage-and you don't have to feed it any hay." Besides, what horse ever came equipped with optional surrey top and roll...
...also making serious efforts to increase their export trade, and small businessmen are trying harder than ever to sell abroad. One delegation of small traders arriving in the U.S. recently included a dealer in crossbows equipped with telescopic sights, manufacturers of sedan chairs and stagecoaches, and a promoter from Surrey who maintains that he can provide "the most distinguished casket since Shakespeare's day." For prospective buyers in no hurry to take delivery, he says that he will also provide a suitable coat of arms on the casket...
Invitation to Think. In England, nine priests have been suspended or more subtly censured. Father John Challoner of the Oratorians in Birmingham has been given no church duties since he attended a prayer meeting organized by opponents of the encyclical. Father Anthony Burnham of Surrey, at his bishop's suggestion, has taken a leave from his parish "to think...
Ojukwu's early schooling took place among the Yorubas of Lagos, Nigeria's bustling seaport capital. At twelve, he was shipped off to the best British education that an Ibo millionaire could buy, first at Epsom public school in Surrey and then at Oxford's Lincoln College. "When I first went to England as a boy," he recalls, "I was swamped by that sea of white faces. I didn't even recognize people who had been my teachers, once they were immersed among their own kind." On the debating team at Epsom, he developed a keen gift for words...