Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstrated to them the newest equation in his latest theory, the Unified Field Theory upon which he has been working since he completed the General Theory of Relativity in 1915. For the past century physicists have been striving after scientific monism. Dr. Einstein has been a monist leader. Scotland's James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79) correlated light and electricity. In 1905 Dr. Einstein announced that electricity and magnetism are two aspects of one world force. His General Theory of Relativity demonstrated that gravity is an other world force. His hope, realized in the Unified Field Theory, was that gravity...
...critique of Scotland in general. Sir Harry Lauder in particular, was published last week by eminent Scottish Lawyer Andrew Dewar Gibbs, entitled Scotland in Eclipse...
What the ukulele is to Hawaii, the bagpipes to Scotland, the samisen is to Japan. A three-stringed, long-necked banjo with enormous decorative tuning pegs and a square wooden drum covered with white dogskin parchment, it makes a noise something like a ukulele-bagpipe merger. No Geisha girl dares hold up her elaborately coiffed head unless she is adept on the samisen. More samisens are made and sold than any other musical instrument in Japan, yet the samisen industry has felt the World Depression...
...Miss Emily Mary Dorman. They had been engaged for five years. Ernest, who had always loved sea ways, and had come to know them through years in the mercantile marine service, had just returned from Antarctica with Scott Antarctic Expedition of 1901. The couple went to live in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Mrs. Shackleton knew many important people. Among her friends was the Earl of Rosebery, Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister (1894-95). Four years after the marriage, Explorer Shackleton turned again toward the South Pole. This time he was commanding officer. When he returned the next year after...
...Under the title The Fishermen's Saint (Scribner's, $1), Dr. Grenfell last month published the address he made when inducted in 1929 as Lord Rector of St. Andrews University, Scotland. In it he happily notes: "Two years ago we opened a large, modern, fireproof hospital, built of reinforced concrete and steel" at St. Anthony, Newfoundland. The other four hospitals he conducts in Labrador and Newfoundland are, like the one at Battle Harbor, built of wood...