Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.-Robert Falcon Scott...
Those words, written in Explorer Scott's diary not long before he perished in March 1912 on the Ross Ice Barrier, stirred Englishmen more than any triumphant saga would have done. They are engraved on the statue of Scott made by his widow and unveiled after the War in Devonport, the Devonshire town where he was born...
...Robert Scott was a hard man, hard-bitten and harddriving. He trained himself to endure hardships. The implacable oppositions of Nature roused in him cold furies of combat. Educated at Stubbington House School, he got into the Navy, quickly made his abilities apparent, was rapidly promoted. At the turn of the Century he was named commander of the National Antarctic Expedition, set out in the Discovery with Shackleton among his men. They discovered King Edward VII Land, were frozen in for nearly two years off Ross Island, learned what scurvy meant. In the following years Captain Scott commanded three...
...Dredd Scott vs. Sandford," Professor Wright, Harvard...
Bridgewater Teachers were too powerful for the Junior Varsity soccer team here yesterday afternoon, forcing the Crimson to take the short end of a 3-0 count. To the home team's credit, however, it may be said that, led by A. W. Scott and F. K. Haskell, at halfback, numerous attacks were launched which ended only when the unfortunate projectile bounded off the very walls of the enemy citadel...