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Told through the eyes of a watchmaker, Dr Thorndyke is once again faced with a nettly mystery involving a mysterious fire in a Soho house filled with supposedly inflammable objects. What transpires is an entertaining and amazing twist thanks to the eagle eyes of the Doctor and his friend the watchmaker, Mr Polton.
It is 1940, the time of the Phoney War. Britain stands alone with German invaders waiting across the Channel and an anxious population preparing for the bloody battle ahead. In an isolated girls' boarding school, sixteen-year-old Judy Randall watches the coming of war with a mixture of fascination and fear. She is a misfit in an institution that prizes conformity; a Catholic with Jewish heritage at a time when anti-Semitism is still commonplace. Most inconveniently of all, she is autistic, and her behavior is misunderstood as merely eccentric and insolent. Bored and frustrated by her inability to help the war effort, Judy becomes obsessed with the idea that her hated headmistress is a Nazi, ...
Reproduction of the original: Man and Maid by E. Nesbit
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Includes miscellaneous newsletters (Music at Michigan, Michigan Muse), bulletins, catalogs, programs, brochures, articles, calendars, histories, and posters.
It was December fifth in 1920 when life began in a place called Williston Park, Minnesota. My parents had come by Street Car from Minneapolis and by night time of that day in 1916 had erected a house in which three boys and a sister and mom and dad all slept. Dad called our two acre plot "Hearts Desire" and it was a place full of fun and love for us. Tragedy was there also, my sister passed away at the age of twelve she was truly missed as time went on. Music was a big part of our family life and mine with the oboe, clarinet and saxophones and the church choir as well. The Pillsbury Flour Mills Band started my musical career, later on I served in the US Marine Band, except in combat when we threw away the horn and picked up a stretcher to help the corpsmen.
This is a compelling story about how a large group of diverse steel companies from around the world came together to achieve major technological breakthroughs in development of Advanced High Strength Steels and lightweight automotive design. Although the technical achievements were of keen interest to global automakers, this is also a fascinating story about the issues concerning cultural, language, and differing commercial interests that had to be overcome and adapted in order to create an unprecedented global consortium of competing companies and different personalities.