Word: bexley
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Like many another U.S. college, Kenyon was founded as a school for the training of clergymen. Later becoming a liberal arts college, it still maintains relations with the Episcopal Church, but accepts students of all faiths, has a separate theological seminary (Bexley Hall). Until recently the undergraduate body has been limited to 300 (about half of them Ohioans, on the average). This year's G.I.-swollen enrollment is a record 500, and the college plans to settle down to a postwar...
...Tory battle cry was "Bread!" Winston Churchill stumped for the Conservative candidate in the Bexley by-election (one of three held in Britain last week). "In the darkest days of war we managed to keep [bread rationing] from you," cried Churchill. "Socialism means queueing...
...year-old "Workingman Tory" Peter Welch (his father is a local coal merchant who still drives his cart through town) by 14,198 votes, a 26% loss for Labor since last year's national election. Labor also won only limited victories in the whitecollar, middle-class suburb of Bexley (loss since 1945: 84%) and in blitz-shattered, slum-infested North Battersea (loss...
Died. May Imelda Josephine Irwin, 74, Dowager Countess of Limerick, Dublin society beauty of the '80s; in ghost-ridden Hall Place, her palatial home in Bexley, England. She periodically reported encountering the armored ghost of Edward the Black Prince, found it "dreadfully distressing...