Word: firth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scots. Early next morning, the President was in Scotland. Through the rolling fields of Ayrshire, across moors and heaths, skirting the cottage of Poet Robert Burns, the President drove to battlemented Culzean (pronounced Cul-lane) Castle high on its cliff above the Firth of Clyde. Three months after the war, the Scottish people presented to the President a nine-room apartment on the castle's top floor. Visiting the place in 1951, Mamie Eisenhower had said: "It's like a fairy tale-the kind we read about in Grimm's story book." Now, greeted by the Marquess...
...Mate." In Clackmannanshire on the Firth of Forth, Editor John Ogilvie sat up all night setting type himself, brought out his weekly Alloa Circular and Hillfoots Record on time. Girl typists helped keep the Birmingham Mail on the streets by having a go at the Linotype machines ("Eh, mate. Can't we have overalls like you?" called one begrimed girl to a man, gasped when she recognized Eric Clayson, chairman of the board, who had donned work clothes to help out). In Devon, an ironmonger's wife who works as a stringer correspondent for several regional papers decided...
...James Gordon Bennet Prize went to Lee B. McTurnan '59 for his thesis "The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association: A Study in Group Politics;" the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize to Guido G. Goldwin '59 for "Zionism under Soviet Rule;" and the Eric Firth Prize to Isaac Kramnick '59 for "William Godwin: The Enlightenment and Political Philosophy...
Senior John Firth scored the single goal of the game, which was played before a sizable crowd of aficionados on the freshman soccer field...
Supplementing his knowledge of philosophy, "Owen is an expert on Greek science and apparently finds its impossible to teach philosophy courses without integrating the scientific aspects," Firth commented...