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Leverhulme
[ lee-ver-hyoomor, often, -yoom ]
noun
- Viscount William Hesketh Lever, 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer, originator of an employee profit-sharing plan, and founder of a model industrial town.
Leverhulme
/ ˈliːvəˌhjuːm /
noun
- Leverhulme, 1st Viscount18511925MEnglishBUSINESS: industrialistPHILANTHROPY: philanthropist William Hesketh, 1st Viscount. 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer and philanthropist, who founded (1881) the model industrial town Port Sunlight
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But after the Leverhulme-John episode we ought to have been told whose was the happy idea, the artist's or the sitter's?
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I would not have the reader to suppose that I consider Lord Leverhulme a heaven-sent genius of statesmanship.
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I saw Lord Leverhulme on several occasions at the end of the war.
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Are you suffering from that Leverhulme six-hour-working-day sort of feeling?
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