Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRADITIONAL SONGS AND BALLADS (Folkways). The collection is Scottish, the period the 17th and 18th centuries, and the subject is sex. So sweetly do Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger sing the hypnotic tunes that even the most shocking deep-country scandals sound gentle and gay. There are printed lyrics and a glossary for those whose Scotch is weak...
...effort to reduce such side effects, electronics experts have resorted to all sorts of tricks. But in most cases the best they could do was follow advice as old as Scottish Physicist James Clerk Maxwell, the father of electrical theory, who died in 1879. It was Maxwell who pointed out that resistors could be bent into hairpin turns so that their current flowed in two directions, canceling out capacitance or inductance. Later, Physicist Georges Chaperon wound resistances into intertwined coils with the same result...
Both his parents were Scottish, and his father, Major Valentine Fleming, D.S.O., was a Conservative Member of Parliament killed in battle in 1916 on the Somme River. The major's obituary in the Times was written by his close friend, Winston Churchill. Ian attended Eton and Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, ended up as a correspondent for Reuters news agency in Berlin and Moscow. Switching to high finance, Fleming worked six years as a stockbroker, even though "I never could figure out what a sixty-fourth of a point was." In the next six years of war, Fleming...
Samuel's Seed. The first form is confined, so far as the U.S. is concerned, to the region of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County around a town called Intercourse. Named the "Ellis-van Creveld Syndrome" after the Scottish and Dutch pediatricians who first reported it in 1940, it has no common name and is so uncommon elsewhere in the world that only about 50 cases had been reported until McKusick's Hopkins team moved into Pennsylvania. There they found proof of at least 49 cases since 1860, with 24 still living. Most exciting, genetically at least: the Amish...
Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society, may have at last explained himself. Plainly, his big-spending theories derive from a rebellion against his upbringing. For Galbraith, as he discloses in this amiable, slim volume of reminiscence, hails from a Scottish community in Ontario that seems today to have been a tightwad little island of frugality in a spendthrift continent, a budget balancer's paradise...