Word: swithin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctor tells the story of how four young Englishmen (Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston) get through St. Swithin's medical school-or don't. The curriculum, it would appear, is little more than a course of jokes about medical students, and some of them are funnier to see than they ever were to hear...
...paneled office on St. Swithin's Lane this week, six representatives of London's leading bullion houses gathered and quietly exchanged bids for the purchase and sale of gold bullion. At the end of the session, they fixed an official price of $34.976 an oz. v. the $34.9125 paid by the U.S. Treasury. By their action, in the "gold-fixing room" of Bullion Dealers N. M. Rothschild & Sons, the six men* gave the world its first official free-gold market since the war ended the meetings in the fixing room. The dealers hoped and expected that the move...
...absurd situation, the producers of "The Happiest Days of Your Life" made a consistently amusing movie, if not a side-shaking one. The absurd situation in this movie is caused by a mistake in the (British) Ministry of Education, which assigns the one hundred girls of St. Swithin's School to the Nutbourne College for Boys...