Word: highland
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Princess Elizabeth was to get her first honorary degree next week. The University of London decided the proper thing would be a Bachelor of Music. Meanwhile, a tartan sash over her white gown, she did all right in the dance department, with a fine Highland reel at the Royal Canadian Ball...
...Loch Eck and imminent British ambassador to the U.S. On the high road to Washington this week, Lord Inverchapel had a youthful bagpiper of the Clan Maclean in his personal retinue. Henceforth, state occasions at the British Embassy will be stirred by the bonny skirl of 200-year-old Highland pipes...
...announcement from Iraq fitted anthropological theory. The search for the cultural Eden, where the transition to agriculture actually took place, has long since narrowed down to the highland south of the Caucasus Mountains. On its fringes are ruins of settled villages already old when Egypt and Chaldea were peopled by preagricultural savages. But these villages are too highly developed to have been the first farming settlements. Somewhere nearby, anthropologists have believed, lies the place where man first planted-and waited a season to gather the ripened grain...
...railroad] route which President Roosevelt used almost ex clusively in recent years. He traveled on the Baltimore & Ohio from Washington to Phila delphia; from there his train went over the Reading to Bound Brook, N.J., where it traveled over the Jersey Central Lines to Jersey City, and on to Highland, N.Y., over the New York Central's West Shore Railroad...
...Highland, the President used an auto mobile to complete his trip across the Hudson and on to Hyde Park...