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...fenodyree (Manx brownie) from the Isle of Man has a diminutive Lincolnshire cousin, Robin-Round-Cap. These little folk are clumsy, hairy and industrious but, like pixies of more personal charm, have often been known to thresh a barnful of wheat for people they liked. The flying fomorians, of Celtic origin, have wings like the gremlins, but are larger and warlike. The hordes of pigmies which in the 2nd Century visited Fergus MacLeite, King of Ulster, are believed to be the ancestors of Swift's Lilliputians, and possibly the model for the pixyish 14th-Century Robin Hood...
Thus Commentator Carter afforded at least a partial clue to his increasingly oblique Biblical allusions to the war (calling Hitler "Satan" and the Germans "Assyrians," calling the United Nations the "Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Judaic peoples" and the "Lost Tribes...
...Peabody Mus. 22 Architectural Sciences S3, at 11 Robinson Hall, Construction Rm. S10ab, at 2 Robinson Hall Astronomy S5, at 9 Astron. Lab. S6, at 10 Observatory Biology S1a, at 9 Biol. Lab. B443 S2a, at 1 Biol. Lab. Lect. Rm. S2b, at 11 Biol. Lab. B443 Celtic S1, at 12 Sever 4 S2, at 11 Sever 4 Chemistry Sab, at 11 Mallinckrodt B9 S2b, at 11 Mallinckrodt B23 S3, at 9 Mallinckrodt B9 S4b, at 9 Coolidge Lab. 1 S5b, at 9 Mallinckrodt B23 S6b, at 11 Coolidge Lab. 1 Chinese SAb, at 8 Boylston...
Solid Senders in Chicago. When traffic lights in Chicago's Loop flash red Saturday night, cars often line up for a solid block. At the Sherman Hotel, customers stand eight deep at the long Celtic Bar; downstairs in the Panther Room, where a normal New Year's crowd is 1,100, nearly 2,500 swing-loving youngsters cramp in to hear the solid-sending of Glenn Miller's band...
...caused little change. Neither Semitic Languages nor Comparative Philology has suffered any alterations at all. Indic Philology, with its one concentrator and one Faculty member, has felt a decrease in course enrollment from 16 to 13 student because of a shift to intensive Japanese. The relatively new Celtic Department, founded in 1940, has felt no changes in its one-man staff and 20 students...