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...sell shares for a shilling each, and to put up watchtowers on the loch shore staffed by Navy men equipped with telescopic cameras, powerful binoculars, range finders, stop watches. In Germany, the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung announced that the monster had been captured, was on view in Edinburgh...
Whether "the fleet's in" or "the fleet's awa" (convoys in or out), once-gloomy Glasgow bustles with workingmen. Pubs and musical music halls are jammed to blackout suffocation. Princes Street in Edinburgh is still beautiful, but even more exciting for the lasses now that there are hundreds of Polish and Norwegian fighting men who have adopted Scotland as their second home...
...Phillips last week. He was just back from convoying supplies to Murmansk. "Ships sailing to or from Murmansk," he said, "go into action almost the first day out against surface craft and submarines." Confirming such accounts of Arctic peril, the Admiralty announced loss of the 10,000-ton cruiser Edinburgh and four merchant ships as the result of enemy attacks on two convoys plying the North Cape route. Yet Winston Churchill (see p. 26) was able to announce that, despite some losses, every convoy carrying U.S.British supplies to Russia has gotten through...
...Cornell undergraduate, he helped build the Student Volunteer Movement. In 1895 he sparked the World's Student Christian Federation proclaiming "the evangelization of the world in this generation." He inspired the Laymen's Missionary Movement which spurred U.S. Protestants to increase their gifts for missions. At Edinburgh in 1910 he chairmaned the great interdenominational world conference, out of which evolved in 1920 the I.M.C., which he has headed ever since...
...idea that "night blindness" is caused only by lack of vitamin A, and can be cured by eating carrots, is stylish but false according to a group of scientists in Edinburgh. They declare that most night blindness among soldiers is psychological...