Word: weyrnouth
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Some of the most aristocratic schools in Britain backed the bill: Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury, Charterhouse. Their existence depended on its passage. Financial troubles had already forced one public school, Weyrnouth, to close down (TIME, April 28.) The rest were in dire straits, attacked on one flank by fading revenues, on the other by reformers who think the public schools are undemocratic...
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