Word: scott
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pages of A History of Exploration, by Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, him self a distinguished traveler-soldier. The story lingers admiringly with such illustrious voyageurs as Leif the Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan-tsang, the studious, well born Buddhist monk who, fortified by a dream, passed beyond the Great Wall in 629 A. D., set out across the grim Gobi, finding his way by the bones and droppings...
Yesterday afternoon at 2.30 the trials for the Carroll Cup races were held over the three-quarter mile course. George L. Scott '34, a former holder of the cup, turned in the best time with 4.55 to win his heat. Paul C. Reardon '32, also a former champion, covered the distance in 5.05 to come out ahead in his heat. The other trials went to Frederick H. White ocC., in 5.17, Hamilton Richards '36 in 5.27, and Arthur V. Meigs in 5.07. The finals will be held this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock over a mile course...
...stopped her mooning, sadly consented to marry respectable Alexander Fergusson who had rich holdings in Cragdarroch down the glen. Willie Douglas went off and got married soon after. Annie Fergusson grew plump and placid. Nearly 150 years passed before Willie Douglas' poem was discovered by Lady (John) Scott, who married into Sir Walter's clan and spent half her time riding over the countryside looking for antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized by the British soldiers at Sebastopol. She edited the poem thoroughly, made the second stanza read: Her brow is like...
Dewey and Sall (W) defeated Beach and Haselton (D), by 3-6, 6-2, 6-4; Polk and Tucker (W) defeated W. Humstone and Scott...
...Behind one of those windows last week a U. S. teacher named Arthur Fletcher was taking time off from his research duties in the Institute of the Monopoly of Foreign Trade to pore over a bourgeois treasure the museum director had found for him: The Talisman in Sir Walter Scott's first draft...