Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointing out that Eton has some 1,100 students from which to choose its cricketers; Harrow only 700. Seven weeks of holiday stretch from the end of the Summer Term to the beginning of the Autumn Term. To Eton (King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor) will then come a new batch of 13 and 14-year-oldsters. As pupils in Britain's largest, most expensive (average total yearly cost: $2,000) and most famed public school,- they will spend some five years on the green campus in the shadow of many a fine Gothic...
...steel and iron tubing (from 30% to 7 ½%). His reasons were first that a group of rich men have promised to open a wire netting plant in Hamilton, Ont. if protected by a high duty; second that another group have promised Premier Bennett to build a factory at Windsor, Ont., and make things in it out of steel and iron tubing, if allowed to import these at reduced duty...
...Eddie Windsor is a swell guy?a charming pprson," replied Mr. Factor, whose idioms are sometimes American, sometimes English. "But he has no more card sense than a child...
...familiar figure all along the right-of-way from Halifax to Vancouver. But last week his great company was forced to admit that, temporarily at least, it has not been able to take the grade of Depression at full speed. After a long meeting in the grey Windsor Station, Montreal, last week the C. P. R. directors filed out slowly, grave in the knowledge that they had ordered only half the regular dividend payment. What was a 10%, rate on C. P. R. is now a 5% rate. Not since 1902 has C. P. R. made so small a payment...
...Ingenious Franklin built a stepladder into his leather library chair, whereby he could reach his highest book shelves. Another precious chair of the Society is the Windsor chair to which Thomas Jefferson fitted a writing board and in which he drafted the Declaration of Independence...