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Scouts
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scouts
English
Noun
en noun form
en Scout
Proper noun
en Q872181A worldwide youth movement with the aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play a constructive role in the society .
en 1976 Ernest Thompson Seton The Worlds of Ernest Thompson Seton Lord Baden-Powell of England is generally given credit for founding the Scouts. There is no doubt he founded the Scout movement in England along military
en 2001 Tim Jeal Baden-Powell In that year Percy Everett suggested that to prevent the Scouts being squeezed out (as they might be if cadet training were to become compulsory for all boys)
en 2004 Philippa Levine Gender and Empire Boer War hero Robert Baden-Powell founded the Scouts in 1907 so that young men might put military and colonial frontier discipline to work in suburban peacetime.
en 2006 Tess Cosslett Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction 1786-1914 Baden-Powell did not himself write animal stories, but when he decided to form an organisation for younger boys, modelled on the Scouts,
Any of the national Scouts organizations. List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members
en 1961 The Australian Journal of Social Issues Australian Council of Social Service 46 The most common criterion of effectiveness quoted from within the Scout Movement is that of the large number of former Scouts who become successful in later [life …]
en 2000 Rannveig Traustadóttir; Kelley Johnson (editors) Women with Intellectual Disabilities: Finding a Place in the World The Scouts promise to make a real effort to help Mrs Tuttleby find a Scout group which will appoint her as a leader with a restricted warrant.
en 2002 Brian Galligan; Winsome Roberts; Gabriella Trifiletti Australians and Globalisation: The Experience of Two Centuries Civic projects were sponsored through service clubs such as Rotary, Apex and Lions. Children might attend Brownies or Cubs, the Guides or the Scouts. By the 1960s Australian cultural activities were also being put on an international footing.
en 2004 Anne E. Blair Ruxton: A Biography The Scouts also took him further afield than his native Melbourne. At the end of 1938, he sailed to Sydney for the Scout Jamboree on the Canberra.
en 2004 Dr Winsome Roberts; Brian Galligan Australian Citizenship 95 and in 2002, the Guides, Scouts, Returned and Serves League and Surf Life Saving clubs all sponsored Harmony Day.
en 1969 John Buchan Canadian Occasions: addresses 148 wherever I have gone I have found companies of Scouts inspired by the true Scout tradition
en 2002 Shimon Redlich Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945 48 in the spring of 1919, a number of local Scouts somehow got hold of a few guns and assisted the Polish soldiers Besides such common scouting activities as hikes and summer camps, the Scouts participated in various Polish national festivals
The Selous Scouts, a special forces regiment of the former Rhodesian Army.
en 1982 Ron Reid-Daly; Peter Stiff Selous Scouts: Top Secret War Turning the tables, the Scouts bit the biter by blowing up
en 1986 Peter Abbott; Philip Botham Modern African Wars Column strength never exceeded 72 men, and the results achieved were out of all proportion. In alone the Scouts notched up 1,257 kills, only 180 of them internal.
en 1994 Leroy Thompson SAS: Great Britain's Elite Special Air Service As the terrorists in Rhodesia relied heavily on letters for communication, the Scouts often captured a bonanza of intelligence
en 2005 Peter J. H. Petter-Bowyer Winds of Destruction: The Autobiography of a Rhodesian Combat Pilot The Scouts recognised that dead CTs were either abandoned or buried and forgotten, whereas the living wounded presented an unwanted burden
Translations
worldwide youth movement
Finnish: fi partioliike, fi partio
French: fr scoutisme m
Italian: it scautismo m
Polish: pl skauting m
Tagalog: tl Iskawts
members of that movement collectively
Finnish: fi partiolainen p partiolaiset
French: fr scouts m-p
Polish: pl skauci vr-p
Anagrams
en cosstu costus SCOTUS Scotus custos
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