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ONCE UPON TIME Britain empire English newspaper printed headline Tog in channel Continent isolated’ The days of ..

... ONCE UPON TIME Britain empire English newspaper printed headline Tog in channel Continent isolated’ The days of British supremacy are however long nowhere is this more motor car manufacture Many varied are the foreign makes that find their way deservedly ...

Published: Thursday 14 August 1980
Newspaper: Wokingham Times
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Outlook foggy Most of us have heard about the famous London newspaper poster which said Fog over Channel ..

... Outlook foggy Most of us have heard about the famous London newspaper poster which said Fog over Channel Continent Isolated.- Whether such a poster was ever really displayed I do not know, but many Continentals believe that it was, and I had it quoted ...

Published: Monday 30 September 1974
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 529 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

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... in Scottish Schools. 30cm.iv,74. pt‘:l £8.50 Scot.Cncl.for Research in Educ. (6.95) 1 86003 009 2 Morrell, Frances. Continent Isolated: Study of the European Dimension in the National (ng;rs:)cuun 23cm 64. pbk £lO.OO Federal Trust for Educ.& Research ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1995
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 45 | Tags: none

One way only

... thought is that of the British newspaper headline which cried “ Continent isolated by fog.” The up-to-date version att,er‘ yesterday’s Press conference in Paris, must be “ Continent isolated by President de Gaulle.” This great and strange man has now given ...

Published: Tuesday 15 January 1963
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OUTSIDE

... of world Imports, will be a roe' little trading bloc and Britain will be outside it. The smug joke— Gale in Channel. Continent isolated. Will be given a new and not-sofunny twist Further proof of the importance that London places on the Pieitfi liters ...

Published: Tuesday 15 April 1958
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SQUARE-HEAD MENTALITY

... that old chestnut, of pure English inspiration, about the alleged headings in the “Times” —“ Dense Fog in the Channel —Continent Isolated for Three Days.” In his laborious efforts to explain the joke the narrator completely overlaid the point. Which reminds ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 179 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The Criterion,

... attitude which our thief national daily recently expressed so well a time Channel fog with its bold English headline, The Continent Isolated. ' G. E. G ...

Heard—and seen!

... Africa) of migrant birds that determine their spring arrival here. Can it, be that spring is also early on that other Continent? . Isolated instances often do occur of cuckoos being heard in early months and then disappearing entirely until the proper ...

Published: Thursday 24 February 1949
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 188 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Sfc- KB ONCE UPON A TIME when Britain had an empire an English newspaper printed the headline 'Fog in channel

... Sfc- KB ONCE UPON A TIME when Britain had an empire an English newspaper printed the headline 'Fog in channel Continent isolated ' The days of British supremacy aire however long gone nowhere is this more apparent than motor car manufacture Many and varied ...

Published: Thursday 14 August 1980
Newspaper: Bracknell Times
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 232 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

It Is Our Only

... (Those were the days when a newspaper could, without seeing any joke, put out the contents bill, FOG IN CHANNEL: CONTINENT ISOLATED.) The aeroplane has hastened the process. A Channel crossing is no longer two hours of sea- Says IVOR THOMAS LABOUR ...

Published: Sunday 09 July 1944
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 195 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Win wil

... wallabies, kookaburras to koalas, the stunning new BBC programme Wild Down Under takes a dazzling look at Australasia, a continent isolated from the rest of the world for a staggering 45 miillion years. Each of the six episodes that make up the series is presented ...