Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campus of St. John's College, Annapolis, stands a tulip poplar which some say is 600 years old. In its shade the white colonists made a treaty in 1652 with the Susquehannock Indians. Alumnus Francis Scott Key ("The Star-Spangled Banner") grew nostalgic beneath it in 1806 when he was trying to raise money for St. John's. Here in 1824 the old, fat, crippled Marquis de Lafayette reviewed local troops. Under this venerable poplar are held St. John's commencements every June. Last week it was the scene of the inauguration of St. John...
...small, slow, economical planes, the pilots achieve time records by steady plugging, frequent halts for refueling. Chief factors are the nerve and endurance of the flyer. Longest, toughest, favorite course is that from England via India to Australia. So long and so tough is it that Charles William Anderson Scott, after setting a new record last year, declared: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds!" But last week Lieut. Scott recovered his record (snatched by Charles A. Butler last November), swept into Port Darwin, Australia in 8 days, 20 hr., 49 min. out of Lympne...
Died, Edward Taylor Scott, 48, able editor of the Manchester Guardian, son of its late, great Editor Charles Prestwich Scott (TIME, Jan. 11), drowned after a dinghy, in which he was rowing to his yacht, capsized; in Lake Windermere, Westmorland, England. His 16-year-old son was rescued...
...years Hoe was practically free from competition. In 1901 certain patent expirations opened the way for an invasion of the field. At present the stiffest competition comes from the Duplex Printing Press Co., Walter Scott & Co., the Goss Printing Press Co. and the Wood Newspaper Machinery Corp. headed by Henry Alexander Wise Wood, who was financed by James Gordon Bennett and others. High-speed color printing for newspapers is Mr. Wood's chief interest and in it he will recognize only one rival, the Claybourn Press (used by the Pittsburgh Press). Another big developer of color presses has been...
...summoned to tell the true story of Cock Lane. With Banque, Hamlet and Poor Yorick new worlds of Shakespearean lore could be revealed, but perhaps there needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this. The headless Horseman and Byron's last appearance to Sir Walter Scott could be reenacted...