Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died "Sergeant Murphy," 16, first U.S. owned horse to win (1923) the British Grand National; at Bogside, Scotland, "destroyed after breaking a rear leg on a turn in the West Scotland Steeplechase. He was mourned by Stephen Sanford Jr., U.S. scion who purchased him for $10,000 and won $50,000, the Grand National Trophy Cup and many another pelf-filled purse...
...success of this first excursion led to others. Thomas Cook opened all England to the provincials. Scotland had no direct railway connections those early days. So he organized an excursion by train and boat. For $5 each, 350 people traveled 800 miles. At Glasgow guns were fired in their honor, bands played...
...would even increase and strengthen the differences and controversies which divided the former belligerents. At the Congress of Strassburg the National Student Unions of Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Roumania, Spain and Tchecho-Slovakia were registered as full members, and the representatives of America, Denmark, England, Greece, Holland, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and Yougoslavia as free members...
...students of the neutral countries, the campaign to create a better spirit of cooperation and to reconciliate the students of the ex-belligerents, began almost immediately. The C. I. E. Congress at Prague in April 1921 saw the admission as full members of Denmark, England, Finland, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Switzerland and Yougolavia. During the following three years the spirit in the C. I. E. was completely changed; the controverseries were more or less settled...
...latter Churches are quite similar in their creeds and their organizations. The Reformed developed on the Continent, the Presbyterian in Scotland. Both aver as fundamental principles the undivided sovereignty of God in His universe, the sovereignty of Christ in salvation, the sovereignty of the Scriptures in faith and conduct, and the sovereignty of the in dividual conscience in the interpretation of the word of God. As a polity they recognize Christ as the only head of the church and source of all power, and the people of Christ as entitled unde their Lord to participation in the government and administration...