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In 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttman, a neurologist working with World War II veterans with spinal injuries at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury in the UK, began using sport as part of the rehabilitation programmes of his patients.
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Sir Miles was instrumental in starting the Falkland Islands Government Air Service in December 1948.
Two Cities Films, an independent production company also made some important films including This Happy Breed ( 1944 ), Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) and Sir Laurence Olivier's Henry V ( 1944 ) and Hamlet ( 1948 ).
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Sir Edmund Hillary made his first ascent in January 1948.
Sir Quackly's remains and the treasure chest were found by Scrooge McDuck in 1948.
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* March 11 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land and water racer ( d. 1948 )
The College became Sir George Williams University ( SGWU ) in 1948, when it received a university charter from the provincial government, though it remained the education arm of the Montreal YMCA.
It comprises expanded and revised versions of two pamphlets that he wrote at the request of Sir Edward Bridges ( then head of the Civil Service ); Plain Words, published in 1948 as a two-shilling pamphlet aimed at civil servants and An ABC of Plain Words which was published in 1951.
* Sir William Edge, 1st Baronet ( 1880 – 1948 ), British businessman and politician
Sir Robert Tony Watson CMG ( born March 21, 1948 ) is a British scientist who has worked on atmospheric science issues including ozone depletion, global warming and paleoclimatology since the 1980s.
Management of the theatre was assumed in 1948 by Sir Hugh Wontner, chairman of the Savoy hotel group.
* Edward Abraham ( Sir Edward ) ( Fellow 1948 – 1999 )
Sir Carol Reed ( 30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976 ) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out ( 1947 ), The Fallen Idol ( 1948 ), The Third Man ( 1949 ) and Oliver!
Later it came under the direction of Sir Barry Jackson in 1945, Anthony Quayle from 1948 to 1956 and Glen Byam Shaw 1957-1959, with an impressive roll-call of actors.
The Games were originally held in 1948 by neurologist Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who organized a sporting competition involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital rehabilitation facility in Stoke Mandeville, England, taking place concurrently with the first post-war Summer Olympics in London.
Koki Hirota listening to his death sentence being read by Sir William Webb ( judge ) | William Webb, 1948
Sir Malcolm Campbell ( 11 March 1885 – 31 December 1948 ) was an English racing motorist and motoring journalist.
By contrast, Sir Winston Churchill's 1948 book The Gathering Storm presented World War II as caused by the insane ambitions of Adolf Hitler who was unwillingly abetted by cowardly and weak-willed British and French leaders who chose appeasement over resistance.
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* The first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's " The Second World War " ( 1948 – 1953 ) is published.
In 1948 he joined ICI as Personal Technical Assistant to Sir Frank Smith where he remained for around 18 months, working on the production lines for various products such as zip fasteners, paints and leathercloth with a view to improving efficiency and reducing production costs.
Under Sir Eugene Goossens ( Director 1948 – 55 ), opera at the Conservatorium made a major contribution to what researcher Roger Covell has described as " the most seminal years in the history of locally produced opera ...".
1948 and Ludwig
The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Collection, 1929 – 1969 ( bulk 1948 – 1960 ) includes correspondence, articles, and materials related to his association with the Illinois Institute of Technology.
In 1947 he applied for graduate studies at Harvard, Yale, and Illinois Institute of Technology and was accepted at all three institutions, and left Ireland in 1948 to study under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The company was founded in 1948 by Ludwig Bölkow, who since 1955 with Emil Weiland had developed helicopters for Bölkow Entwicklungen KG.
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Ludwig Derangadage Scotty ( born 20 June 1948, in Anabar ) is a two-time former President of the Republic of Nauru.
When economic conditions in occupied West Germany failed to improve, Ludwig Erhard, without consulting the occupying powers, completely destroyed price controls in 1948.
Emil Ludwig ( 25 January 1881 – 17 September 1948 ) was a German author, known for his biographies.
1948 and Guttman
In 1943 both Ferenc Puskás and József Bozsik made their debut for Kispest FC and between 1947 and 1948 the club was coached by the legendary Hungarian coach Béla Guttman.
Another commonly used metric for assessing the quality of a Guttman scale, is Menzel's coefficient of scalability and the coefficient of homogeneity ( Loevinger, 1948 ; Cliff, 1977 ; Krus and Blackman, 1988 ).
1948 and working
Since 1948 the working headquarters has been the Department of Geology and Mineralogy.
Actor Clint Eastwood recalled seeing Wills when he was 18 or 19 ( 1948 or 1949 ) and working at a pulp mill in Springfield, Oregon.
For State of the Union ( 1948 ) Capra changed studios, working for the only time for MGM Pictures.
He designed mines for the U. S. Navy during World War II, before obtaining his Ph. D. in physics from Princeton University in 1948 and working as a scientific liaison officer in the U. S. Embassy in London.
On May 14, 1948, the Jewish People's Council declared the establishment of the State of Israel, following a prolonged campaign beginning in the late 19th century, when the Zionist movement began working towards creating a homeland for the Jewish people.
Then he came home to complete his architectural education with honors in 1948 and settled down with Lois working as an architect.
His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the first operational electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University which produced the first working stored program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.
In 1948, the point-contact transistor was independently invented by German physicists Herbert Mataré and Heinrich Welker while working at the Compagnie des Freins et Signaux, a Westinghouse subsidiary located in Paris.
Under General Assembly Resolution 194 ( III ), of 11 December 1948, other persons may be eligible for repatriation and / or compensation but are not necessarily eligible for relief under the UNRWA's working definition.
While working for a scenic painter in Florence, he was introduced to and hired by Luchino Visconti, who made him the assistant director for the film La Terra trema, which was released in 1948.
After the war, he became a freelance journalist, working for BBC radio before moving to television in 1948.
After working as Editor of the Church Times from 1948 to 1949, Heath worked as a management trainee at the merchant bankers Brown, Shipley & Co. until his election as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bexley in the February 1950 general election.
Further attention came also while Saarinen was still working for his father, when he took first prize in the 1948 competition for the design of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, not completed until the 1960s.
Beginning from 1 September 1948 the Parlamentarische Rat was working out the definite text of the Grundgesetz.
The General Assembly then convened for its second special session between 16 April to 14 May 1948, during which it considers a working paper submitted by the United States ( U. S .) on the question of the " Trusteeship of Palestine ", which was opposed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( U. S. S. R .) as well as the Jewish Agency.
In 1926, while working with Tex Rickard ( who actually despised wrestling to such a degree he prevented wrestling events from being held at the third Madison Square Garden in New York City between 1939 and 1948 ), he started promoting boxing at the Garden.
Indeed, between 1948 and 1963 only 3 % of the recruits to the administrative class came from the working classes, and in 1966 more than half of the administrators at under-secretary level and above had been privately educated.
Similar organisations exist in Scotland, where the National Trust for Scotland was established 1931, and in Ireland, where An Taisce was created in 1948 to working alongside the Irish Ministry of Works to maintain castles and other sites.
They began working together in 1948, at which time she adopted the stage name Mary Ford.
Ifs origins can be traced to 1948 and 1949, when Raymond Palmer founded two magazines while working at Ziff-Davis in Chicago: Fate and Other Worlds.
A four week vacation for all employees over 40 years of age was introduced in 1947, while the working week was reduced to 39 hours in 1948.
In 1948 an architectural design competition was announced for an indoor arena with the project name Valhalla Inomhusarena (), the winning design was presented by a work group led by architect Poul Hultberg, who was working for Nils Olsson's architect firm in Gothenburg.
Agriculture continued to diminish in importance throughout the 20th century as demand for residential development grew ; in 1920 there were 31 working farms in the area, in 1948 that number had fallen to 24 and by 1989 there were only 13 left.
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