Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donald Scott's annual report on the activities of the Peabody Museum indicates the extent and diversification of Harvard's anthropological research. A Boston newspaper's headline, pointing to Tibet and Chelsea, Massachusetts as marking the division's scope of study, gives an accurate idea of this diversification. The various scenes of investigation, however, do not mean that the Museum lacks a unified objective, which, as Mr. Scott explains, is to assemble complete series of data which will illustrate such occurrences "as the spread of Paleolithic and neolithic man over all three continents of the Old World...
...study of the neolithic period in the Near East," Donald Scott '00, Director of the Peabody Museum, said in his annual report issued today, "The researches of the Museum and the Division are tending toward more comprehensive projects in this single field...
...Democratic appointees ruled the Court and it was the turn of Whig-Republicans to chafe and roar. When Democratic Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, onetime slave owner, handed down his Dred Scott decision preserving Western territories to slavery despite the will of Congress, a rising Republican named Abraham Lincoln went up & down the land denouncing it, demanding that the President and Congress reverse it, calling for appointment of new, right-thinking Justices. As President, Lincoln carried his feud to the point of ordering an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney...
...Petersburg, 1831, and originally part of the library of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich. This book was written in 1826, but the Russian Czar refused Pushkin permission to publish it, urging that he rewrite the story in the form of an historical romance like those of Sir Walter Scott. Finally Pushkin prevailed upon the ruler to grant permission, saying that he needed money for his impending marriage...
...fitness of some 12,000 youngsters every year to enter high-ranking U. S. universities and colleges, is so crusty that its brownstone Manhattan headquarters does not list a telephone. Last week the Board's new Secretary. Columbia Mathematician George Walker Mullins, who succeeded 71-year-old Thomas Scott Fiske three months ago (TIME, Nov. 2), renovated his hoary service in two ways...