Word: caledonian
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...head and eight humps; that it could travel 40 m.p.h. up & down the lake, prudently keeping at least 100 yd. from shore. On the east shore, a large pudgy "footprint" was found. Scientists entering the discussion opined that it was: 1) an elephant seal that had slipped through the Caledonian Canal from the North Sea; 2) a giant squid; 3) a hippopotamus; 4) an acclimatized crocodile; 5) floating debris from a Wartime German blimp...
Times. Believers agreed that the creature must have floundered up the stream which connects Loch Ness with the North Sea, since obviously it could not have surmounted the locks in the Caledonian Canal which leads from the lake to the Atlantic. Englishmen began to take the monster seriously when Lieut. -Commander R. T. Gould, R. N. retired, author of The Case for the Sea Serpent, collected 51 eye witness accounts and drawings, which he duly detailed in the London Times. It was about 50 ft. long, he had concluded, and not more than five feet thick, with long, tapering neck...
...Caledonian economy of the Moral Law, Sin is paid wages, Death; but Virtue must be its own reward. Scotsman Cronin, in his story of the three-love-life of Lucy Moore, shows how Virtue, by seeking rewards other than itself, becomes a Sin, and gets the sinful wage...
Trials for this section of the country were held recently at Caledonian Grove in West Roxbury, and Kopans was one of the two selected to compete in the final Maccabee tryouts, which will be held in the Madison Square Garden in New York next January. In addition to Kopans, R. J. Boche '31 will run in the middle distance events...
...motive for this inspiration appears to be strictly Caledonian. For all one can spend in West Virginia on a Sunday is time...