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  • Paul is regularly spelt Poule by Chaucer, and St. Paul's Cathedral is often called Powles in Tudor documents.

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • I was approached by Jack Powles, who offered me a position in his research group working on NMR.

    Sir Peter Mansfield - Autobiography 2004

  • At that time Jack Powles was a Reader in Physics and I felt greatly honoured to be asked to join his research group.

    Sir Peter Mansfield - Autobiography 2004

  • In Charlie Slichter's laboratory, I was not able to pursue the solid echo work started in London, but a colleague from Jack Powles 'laboratory, Doug Cutler, who came over at roughly the same time as we did was working with Professor Ted Rowland in the Metallurgy Department at Urbana.

    Sir Peter Mansfield - Autobiography 2004

  • Powles who had recently taken the founding Professorship in Physics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, however I decided that

    Sir Peter Mansfield - Autobiography 2004

  • Jack Powles 'main interest then was in studying molecular motion in a range of materials, mainly liquids.

    Sir Peter Mansfield - Autobiography 2004

  • A year or so later Jack Powles came to Nottingham to give a colloquium talk in the Physics Department.

    Sir Peter Mansfield - Autobiography 2004

  • Sir Guy Powles expressed this thought on the question of the Ombudsman's independence:

    The Citizen's Protection Against Bureaucracy 1974

  • Needless to say, I would disagree with the Honourable Member of Parliament from Western Canada, and would lean more towards the comment of Sir Guy Powles, Ombudsman for New Zealand, when he mentioned that he was once approached by a school girl who asked him, "Why do we have to have an Ombudsman in a democracy?"

    The Citizen's Protection Against Bureaucracy 1974

  • The conflagration was followed on the twenty-third by the easy British occupation of Powles Hook.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

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