Word: surreys
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...seems to have at least its share. Last week the Sun newspaper of London disclosed that two first cousins of Queen Elizabeth's, who were listed as having died long ago in Burke's Peerage, a leading directory of the British aristocracy, actually spent decades as patients in a Surrey mental hospital; one still survives there. Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, two of the five children of the Queen Mother's brother John, and both severely retarded, were admitted to the Royal Earlswood hospital in 1941. Though Burke's lists the two women as having died...
...Britain, where at least 37 people perished in record low temperatures, snow drifts up to ten feet high cut off towns and villages in the counties of Kent and Surrey. A rare heavy snowfall forced the closing of major highway and rail links to Scotland and the Lake District. British Rail was forced to cancel all but 3% of its commuter trains to and from the capital. Warned a blunt notice at London's Charing Cross station: "There is very little chance of anyone reaching their intended destination and even less chance of them getting back again...
...father was a friendly little guy who wanted to help people," says his son, Edward. "I remember during the depression--with the Work Progress efforts, we had lines of people outside of our house on Surrey Street every day, waiting to talk to my father for a job of any kind...
Colin Simpson said yesterday in a telephone interview from Surrey, England, that Harvard is claiming unjustly copyrights to what he said was previously undiscovered archival information used in his book on early 20th century art connoisseur Bernard Berenson (Class...
...more than two decades lonely reformers have waged a futile crusade to change the system. Even before John F. Kennedy appointed him to the Treasury's top tax post in 1961, Harvard Professor Stanley Surrey advocated lower rates, a simpler code and fewer deductions. His advice had little effect. Kennedy did propose rate cuts that were enacted after his assassination, but he also introduced the investment tax credit, on the theory that the tax code should promote industrial modernization, a prime example of manipulating the code for purposes other than raising revenue. George McGovern pledged some tax reforms during...