Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GREAT GATSBY-F. Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner-($2.00). Still the brightest boy in the class, Scott Fitzgerald holds up his hand. It is noticed that his literary trousers are longer, less bell-bottomed, but still precious. His recitation concerns Daisy Fay who, drunk as a monkey the night before she married Tom Buchanan, muttered: "Tell 'em all Daisy's chang' her mind." A certain penniless Navy lieutenant was believed to be swimming out of her emotional past. They gave her a cold bath, she married Buchanan, settled expensively at West Egg, L. I., where soon appeared one lonely...
...English Department will be enriched by the coming of Dr. William Lawrence from England to teach the history of the Elizabethan stage, and in History Professor William Scott Ferguson and Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '08 will each take courses. In the Philosophy and Psychology Department Dr. Maurice deWulf will return to teach and Professor Wolfgang Kohler will come to the University...
Professor William Scott Ferguson will return to the teaching of ancient history after half a year spent as Exchange Professor to Western Colleges and half a year spent in travel through Northern Africa and Europe. Professor Ferguson is a member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published many works on Greek culture and civilization...
...same day, airship pilots of the U. S. Army Air Service had their troubles with a huge gas bag, in this case the TC-3, a nonrigid twin-motored airship of only 200,000 cu. ft., scarcely one-tenth the volume of the R-33. Sailing from Scott Field, III., the TC3 broke her rudder at Caseyville, Ill., soon after going aloft. For two hours, she drifted at the will of the wind, then negotiated a landing at Black Walnut, Mo., little the worse for wear...
...damage that Lieutenant Douglas Johnson had to report was financial. To make a landing, he had to valve his helium; the cost was about $14,400, since the gas is valued at approximately $80 per 1,000 cu. ft. Totally deflated, the TC3 was ignominiously brought back to Scott Field on an Army truck...