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Word: tremadoc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Born 44 years ago at Tremadoc, Wales of a good but not famed family with mixed Irish, Hebridean, Spanish and Norse blood, Thomas Edward Lawrence was one of five sons. His childhood was spent in Scotland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, France. Hampshire. His family moved to Oxford and he went to school there. At 13 he began a series of solo bicycle tours, made a large collection of brass-rubbings from old monuments in country churches. At 16 he broke a leg wrestling with another boy at school. He said nothing about it, rode home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scholar-Warrior | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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