Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stone of Scone, upon which the Scotch Kings were crowned for 500 years, was brought from Scone to England by Edward I in 1296, and placed under the throne in Westminster Abbey. Since that date all the Sovereigns have been crowned upon it. Edward III offered to return it some fifty years later under stated conditions, but the Scotch noblemen refused his offer...
...knows the exact date, the exact hour, the exact place where the three Scotch witches first ensnared their victim: "Treasury thou art, Railroads shalt be; More hereafter...
...Glasgow, an exhibition was opened illustrative of the progressive stages in the education of a Scotch child, from the nursery to the threshold of a university. Pupils from Glasgow schools performed...
Fifth Day. Before the 200-metre sprint, Head Coach Lawson Robertson spat fire at his fleet charges, enflamed Scholz and Paddock so that they went blazing by Harold Abrahams (their extinguisher in the 100-metre race) and E. H. Liddell (the Scotch parson who had refused to compete in "the century" because it was held on Sunday...
Seventh Day. The sun came out blistering. When the 1924 starters dug their holes, the world's record for the 400-metre run stood at 48⅓ secs. When Liddell, spindly Scotch parson, snapped the tape in the final, it was 47 3/3 secs. Before Liddell settled the matter the record had been broken twice in heats, by Imbach, an unsung Swiss, by Fitch, a fast Chicagoan...