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...grey, stone-built Edinburgh last week the 70-year-old 7th Duke of Buccleuch wriggled his lean limbs into an archer's uniform of woodland green. So did all the Scottish aristocrats of the Royal Company of Archers, of whom the Duke is Captain-General. They filled their quivers with silver-barbed arrows, stepped into their limousines and rode to Holyrood Palace, there to guard King George and Queen Mary who had come up for Scotland's yearly "drawing room...
...thick eyebrows might have been those of a shipowner or an engineer. His life was so ordered that almost any year of it might be interchanged with another with no loss of continuity. His miller father and his mother died shortly after his birth in 1756 in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, leaving him to the care of an elder brother. After an undistinguished education at Heriot's Hospital, he was apprenticed at 15 to an Edinburgh goldsmith named Gilliland. Edinburgh was expanding from town to city; there was much building but little art. To while away time when...
...identical twins, found that 5% wrote the same hand. Other pairs wrote enough alike to deceive a bank teller completely, to make experts hesitate. This degree of resemblance he also found in the handwriting of two young girls, no kin, both taught to write in the school of Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for the Deaf...
...from Louisville, Ky. where it had been exhibited, the Royal Scot, crack London-to-Edinburgh train which was brought to the U. S. for A Century of Progress, struck and killed one Charles Lee Mitchell, 22, while passing through Reed, Ky. Engineer William Gilbertson did not know he had killed a man, continued his run to St. Louis...
...these vital entities. In Chicago they were the subject of a symposium in which A. C. S. President Arthur Becket Lamb partook, and at which foreign guests of the Society expounded-Munich's Dr. Richard Willstätter on enzymes, Zurich's Dr. Paul Karrer on vitamins, Edinburgh's Dr. George Barger on hormones...