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Bodley

American  
[bod-lee] / ˈbɒd li /

noun

  1. George Frederick, 1827–1907, English architect.


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“I haven’t got a title yet,” Pullman told The Associated Press in his home city of Oxford, where he was honored Thursday with the Bodley Medal.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Board member Debby Borza of California, was also affected by the terrorist attacks – having lost her 20-year-old daughter, Deora Bodley, in the Flight 93 crash.

From Fox News • Aug. 11, 2021

Knots and Crosses was eventually published by Bodley Head in 1987 and the no-nonsense cop went on to become one of the most popular characters in crime fiction, featuring in 21 novels.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2017

Mr. Parr made a living as an artist for F. R. Leach & Sons, which decorated churches and stately homes based on designs by luminaries like William Morris and the architect George Bodley.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2016

From the first preparation of the new foundation Bodley had fixed upon James, then a Fellow of New College, as his Library-Keeper.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn

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