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James Macfadden died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point to Point. - A Town like Alice (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] When I was put in charge of the Structural Department of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, I was thirty-four years old. That made a few small difficulties at first, because most of my research staff were a good deal older than I was, and most of them considered it a very odd appointment. - No Highway [Books (First Lines)] Lieutenant Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy woke soon after dawn. - On the Beach [Books (First Lines)] West Ealing is a suburb to the west of London, and Keith Stewart lives there in the lower part of No. 56 Somerset Road. No. 56 is an unusual house and a peculiarly ugly one, a detached house standing in a row but in a fairly spacious garden, four storeys high if you include the basement, a tall, thin slip of a house. - Trustee from the Toolroom [Books (First Lines)]
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