Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study to follow up his suspicion-that good bat willows and bad bat willows depend on the botanical strains and perhaps the sex of the willow tree. Were Fairies an Actual Race of Men? asked Dr. John Arnott MacCulloch, the learned canon of St. Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, Scotland. He finds it noteworthy that many a fairy tale deals with gnomes, dwarfs and such little folk who live in crevices, caves, dells, almost any place where they can hide from the natural men whom they often mortally hate & fear. Well may it be that the bitter Rumpelstilzchens of folklore...
...were 21.982. This year the schools expect a proportionate increase. But there is not room now for all medical aspirants. Canada's 2,448 students last year included 308 U. S. citizens. The U. S. medical overflow sent 339 U. S. students and their fees into Great Britain (Scotland was very hospitable), 188 into Austria (a 50% increase over the previous year), 155 into Italy (100% increase), 183 into Germany (150% increase), 214 into Switzerland (230% increase). The American Medical Association, which keeps close tab on the situation, in its Journal last week printed the current picture...
...financial developments of the greatest importance. Fortnight after his last visit, year ago, Britain went off the gold standard. Leaving Governor Norman to sun his silvery beard in Bar Harbor, newshawks instantly checked the whereabouts of the most important U. S. financiers. John Pierpont Morgan was grouse-shooting in Scotland, was reported to have had a secret conference with Governor Norman just before the Britannic left Cobh (Queenstown). Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve was at his country place in Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Attention came to sharp focus when Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont was discovered at North...
...chomped their oats in Dublin last week and tripped round & round the paddock in parti-colored flannel blankets. It was the opening of the Dublin Horse Show, greatest event in the Irish social season and an annual magnet for scores of U. S. sportsmen on their way north for Scotland, Aug. 12 and grouse...
...Kaye Don: a world's record for speedboats. 119.81 m. p. h.; in Miss England III; at Loch Lomond, Scotland...