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...voyages was that of adventurous young Leif Ericsson ("Leif the Lucky") who started from Norway to Greenland in 1000 A.D., but-according to Historian William Hovgaard-"was driven far to the southwest, and finally made land on the coast of America, probably near Cape Cod. Leif sent out two Scotch runners to explore the country, and these men brought back grapes and some wheat-like grasses." Leif called his new country Vineland. Next year he sailed west again from Greenland, passed "Helluland" (probably Baffin Land), "Markland" (probably Nova Scotia), and came again to Vineland where he collected a great cargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Norse | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Yankee Fable" is labeled as "comedy," but in five minutes a dead weight falls on the audience which only a double Scotch can budge...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/20/1938 | See Source »

...Edge of the World (Joe Rock). Documentary treatment of life on the bare, spray-soaked Scotch island of Foula, proving again, with superb views of Foula's cliff-scrambling denizens, that human existence is most photogenic where it is least cosy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Peat is compressed, decayed vegetation found in bogs. Processed peat is used as fuel, fertilizer, insulator, wallboard material, wrapping paper, cloth base. Exide Batteries of Canada, Ltd. uses a type of peat for a secret paint which binds rubber to metal. Domestic Scotch whiskey distillers get their vaunted "Highland peat" flavor by charring raw peat inside their kegs. But though the U.S. has 11,200 square miles of peat bogs (only Russia, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAW MATERIALS: Bog Rot | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...distillery which has capitalized on the freak market. This year the company applied for a patent on "Liquorized Ice-Cream." As rich and thick as junket but tasting more like an Alexander cocktail, the mixture consists of 5% to 25% liquor (sloe gin, dry gin, rum, whiskey, cognac or Scotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD & DRINK: And Milk Punch | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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