Word: scott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cove sits remotely on a plateau in Nolichuckey Valley, Scott County, Va. Around it and its 100-odd residents, roll and billow the Cumberland Mountains. Locomotive whistles echo from five miles away. Until last week, the seven-room schoolhouse of Rye Cove, set in an open field near the valley head, drew 200 pupils from ten mountainous miles around. Life there was simple, sheltered, unharried by the outer world...
...Simon Ochs (New York Times), flayed handshaking as too hard on President Hoover, attacked billboards. Robert Cedric Sherriff, London insurance broker, amateur playwright of super-successful Journey's End (TIME, April 1), announced last week he was writing a play about the antarctic death (1912) of Explorer Robert Falcon Scott...
...George, with worn logbook in his arms. His Majesty was delighted. For 15 minutes King George and Bill King pawed over the log, looked at pictures of the Bacchante in fair weather and foul, and gazed thoughtfully at the awesome linea ments of their old commander, Captain Lord Charles Scott. "I made the King laugh!" cackled Old Bill, emerging from his interview in high glee. "I recalled to him how once he near upset the captain's gig, of which I was coxswain, by his skylarking! Look, he gave me his picture in an admiral's uniform." George...
...Mclean Professorship of Ancient and Modern History has been granted to William Scott Ferguson, Professor of Ancient History at Harvard since 1912, who, in 1913-14, was a professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Edward Channing '78 recently retired to the position of Mclean Professor, Emeritus, was the last holder of the chair...
...texts of Bigelow, Introduction to the Law of Real Property, and Holdsworth. An Historical Introduction to the Land Law. Tiffany's pretties is extensively used in connection with other parts of the course. In Civil Procedure various texts on common law pleading. Clark on Code Pleading, Professor Scott's little book, and Professor Morgan's Introduction together with various law review articles constitute the materials with which the men counteract by self-help defective instruction. Already the case system as applied to these courses is in large measure a legal education...