Word: glasgowe
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...sight of Doctor James Moffat of Glasgow dangling from he gallows would have rejoiced the heart of Professor Francis Child. Doctor Moffat has published a translation in modern English of the entire Old Testament. Acting on the principle that the King James version is a vast, unweeded garden, the Doctor has rolled up scholarly sleeves and has planted a garden where no archaisms grow. For exactly what reasons he believes that "a barge of cypress wood wit cabin accommodations" is more appropriate than ark, or that the term, park, is more comprehensible to modern readers than the Garden of Eden...
...only a writer of stirring romantic novels, but the best historian, so far, of the recent War. In fact, two talents-literary and historical -became evident early in his career; for he won prizes in both subjects while at Oxford, where he was educated after preliminaries at Glasgow University...
University of Glasgow, founded...
Instrument-maker Watt, of the Univ. of Glasgow−Steam locomotion...
Prof. Lister, of Glasgow Univ.−Septic surgery...