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... 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

How Europeanism can help the climate of understanding

... Insularity is still strong here and the feeling expressed in that famous newspaper poster of yesteryear Fog over Channel Continent isolated persists. by their nationals to Britain have created a climate of understanding which has never been achieved before ...

Published: Monday 28 June 1971
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 535 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

How Europeanism can help the climate of understanding

... Insularity is still strong here and the feeling expressed in that famous newspaper poster of yesteryear Fog over Channel Continent isolated persists. Letters to newspapers continue to show deeprooted reluctance to the idea of being controlled by foreigners ...

Published: Monday 28 June 1971
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 482 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

foggy

... 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 Con• tinentals believe that it was, and I had it quoted at me ...

Published: Monday 30 September 1974
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 529 | Page: 8 | 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

EVENING TELEGRAPH FREE CLASSIFIED ADS Tml: 0120351026 TUESDAY FEBRUARY 20 1996 15 Actors get lucky break ..

... Edwards supported the call from the pro-European charity the Federal Trust for Education and Research A trust pamphlet Continent Isolated argues that the European dimen-sion'has been largely excluded from the slimmed-down national curriculum taught in English ...

Published: Tuesday 20 February 1996
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1244 | Page: 15 | Tags: none