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Definition of Attlee

1. Noun. British statesman and leader of the Labour Party who instituted the welfare state in Britain (1883-1967).

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Literary usage of Attlee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1854)
"Attlee TO PRES. DICKINSON, 1785. Lancaster, ye 3rd January, 1785. ... Attlee. Directed, John Armstrong, junr., Esquire, Secretary of the Supreme ..."

2. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1897)
"By Dr. John Attlee. TT, aged 12, a well-grown but rather pale schoolboy, had been attending the Children's Hospital, Shadwell, as an out-patient, ..."

3. The Goulstonian lectures on the suprarenal bodies by Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston (1895)
"(I am indebted to Dr. Attlee for Figs. 2 and 3). Experimentally, Attlee found that in young rabbits in which the suprarenal bodies normally are free from ..."

4. Wit and Wisdom: A Public Affairs Miscellany by Colin Bingham (1982)
"Sir Gladwyn Jebb, later Lord Gladwyn, described Attlee as 'a sort of British ... Truman had a gift for cutting retaliation which Attlee did not possess, ..."

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