Fourth Leaders from the Times, 1954: A Selection from the Past Twelve Months |
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... Britain have changed since the first explorers went out with a sense of adventure that can no longer be recaptured . LELAND , who may be called the father of this school of authorship , claimed to have visited , in early Tudor days ...
... Britain have changed since the first explorers went out with a sense of adventure that can no longer be recaptured . LELAND , who may be called the father of this school of authorship , claimed to have visited , in early Tudor days ...
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... Britain . The easy , rambling style of LUCAS and his like and their casually mixed offering of landscape sketches and anecdotal dippings into the past has lately been super- seded . Brisk , business - like digests of what to look out ...
... Britain . The easy , rambling style of LUCAS and his like and their casually mixed offering of landscape sketches and anecdotal dippings into the past has lately been super- seded . Brisk , business - like digests of what to look out ...
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... Britain can he forget his destination , as he can in a Basque buffet , while his chosen bird is " jeté dans la graisse de porc au moment de l'incorporation de la tomate . " Magic moment — not to be matched by wondering how the old ...
... Britain can he forget his destination , as he can in a Basque buffet , while his chosen bird is " jeté dans la graisse de porc au moment de l'incorporation de la tomate . " Magic moment — not to be matched by wondering how the old ...
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adjective advertisement AGNES WESTON animals appears Army asked aspidistra ASSEGAIS audience bath beast better Britain British BYLES called century character claim CLAPHAM JUNCTION conventional course courts creatures cricket described Doncaster draught beer English Entroncamento eyes famous Fantasia favourite flea friends glasses half hand happened honour horse hospital hunting JOHN PEEL learned least leisure less Little Dorrit live look Magdalene Bridge MARK RUTHERFORD master memory nanny never Office once owner pass perhaps pigs play pleasant poetry poets pottering pure fluke QUIS SEPARABIT recitalist recluse remember robots round Sailors say touch wood schoolgirls seems semi-recluse sermon SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL sometimes sort stand Stripe surely swill T. S. ELIOT tells thing thought to-day told top hats true turn Victorian word