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...tell you what Johnny Reb wears under his uniform--a kilt! By God, we've got to win this war, or they will steer the whole nation into haggis-eating, caber-tossing degeneracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lincoln White House Tapes | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...dead time gave students a chance to check out other amusements--from throwing logs at the Celtic Society's caber toss to paying $3 to get their picture taken with a life-size cardboard reproduction of Latham A. Boyle...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nice Weather Blesses Swingin' Springfest | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...awards will be formally presented at a Caber House dinner tomorrow night. At the dinner, plaques which will hang in Lamont Library will be presented to the winners...

Author: By Michael Isenman, | Title: Undergrads Pick Favorite Teachers | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

Topped only by the three firsts of Clayton Farrar of the Reddish A. A., Fisher took the 56-pound weight throw with a heave of 34 feet, 2 1/2 inches, and also walked off with top honors in tossing the caber. His winning caber toss was 34 feet, 11 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fisher Takes Laurels In Scotch Track Meet | 8/13/1946 | See Source »

...forbears' arrival. The celebration was held not on the site of Old Scots itself but in the neighboring hamlet of Holmdel, where at Scot Theron McCampbell's sylvan Forum estate there was ample elbow room for such Scottish high jinks as sword dancing, piping and tossing the caber. Holmdel's first Scottish Games became an annual event, and with the passing of the years Scots from far beyond New Jersey's glens came to witness them, and such famed pipers as the late Angus MacMillan Fraser squealed and skirled for prizes in Holmdel's pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Skirlers | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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