Word: scott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scottish Universities. He has written a score of excellent adventure stories, such as The Dancing Floor, Greenmantle, The Path of the King, and has shown a brilliant flair for dishing up heroes in immensely scholarly, reasonable and sound biographies: Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Scott...
...party, who later proved to have been an escaped murderer, pilfered food from his comrades. After the third offense Lieut. Greely had him shot. By spring all were reduced to eating shrimps and seaweed. Finally on June 22, 1884 Appeared a relief ship commanded by Captain Winfield Scott Schley, U. S. N. (who was to be a hero in the Spanish-American War 14 years later). Only one of Greely's men was strong enough to wave a feeble welcome before falling on his face. Of the original party of 25, Captain Schley found all but seven dead...
...second or Jayvee boat carries the following: stroke, Cedric E. Francis '37; 7, Philip V. Bray '35; 6, George T. Keyes '35; 5, Henry F. Atherton, Jr. '36; 4, Oliver K. Scott '37; 3, Lawrence Mills '37; 2, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. '37; bow, William C. Haskins '37; and cox, Thomas H. Hunter...
...stroke of the first boat, cut his hand yesterday and will be on the injured list most of vacation it is thought. The tentative seatings in the first boat are: stroke, Edgar B. Van Winkle, 2nd; 7, Edmund S. Twining, Jr.; 6, Douglas Erickson; 5, John S. Radway; 4, Scott; 3, John Gardiner; 2, Clark; bow, Peter T. Brooks; and cox, White. The second boat is as follows: stroke, John L. Senior, Jr.; 7, Hamill; 6, B. G. Leighton, Jr.; 5, Fellows D. Gardner; 4, Renouf Russell; 3, Godfrey; 2, MacVickar; bow, Kernan; and cox, Alden S. Bloget...
Four years ago, after he broke the England-Australia record in a tiny Gypsy-Moth, Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott declared wearily: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds." But the long, tough course had not really beaten the onetime light-heavyweight boxing champion of the British Royal Air Force. Few months afterward he flew back to England in record time. Later he made a second trip, settled down to a job as commercial pilot in Australia, got his face permanently scarred when he dashed into a burning plane to save a passenger after...