Word: highland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circle a log about the size of a small telegraph pole) went to an Armonk, N. Y. clansman named George Ross, after the caber had been sawed down several times so contestants could balance it. Further prizes were awarded to the best-dressed piper; the best-dressed lady in Highland costume; the best Highland flingers; winners at soccer, high-jumping, sack-racing and novice piping...
...after the late Sir John Dewar bought Raeburn's sturdy Highland portrait The M'Nab for ?25.410, his canny Scot mind was beset by doubts concerning his investment. To bolster its value he decided to use reproductions of the famed picture on advertisements of his famed whiskey. The M'Nab now hangs in the Dewar London Office, is occasionally shown to the public...
...Liberal Club last night, made the statement. "The N. R. A. has defeated the cause of the unions and has beateu the strikes in the South." In his attempt to point out how university students can help to remedy such conditions. Mr. Dombrowski outlined the plans of the Highland Folk School, an educational institution with an expressed revolutionary purpose at Monteagle, Tenn...
...Ruppert Hampton, also a representative of the Highland Folk School, depicted the character of the work done at the school, playing some of the representative ballads and folk songs on the piano...
...Stanley Evans, Highland Park, Mich. Negro: the National A. A. U. heavyweight boxing championship; outpointing Irwin Striebel of St. Louis, who outweighed him by 30 lb.; in St. Louis...