Word: edinburghers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great mistake to mix women and men in an orchestra. I do not consider the life at all suitable for women, and I am not at all in favor of it. I conducted a mixed orchestra in Glasgow and Edinburgh, where 40% of the members were women, and it answered only fairly well. Women players, I admit, are more earnest and serious than men, but they are not so strong and their tone is not so good...
...mixed orchestra in Glasgow and Edinburgh...
...Edinburgh...
...World Federation of Education Associations spent an animated week at Edinburgh, Scotland, reaffirming their belief that the proper inclination for trees (future citizens) of all countries is toward a condition of international affairs wherein armed hostilities shall be be rendered psychologically impossible through agencies vaguely known as "cosmopolitan culture," "international understanding," "human fellowship," "world literacy...
Young Bullock had a friend named Gye who had some money. Gye liked Bullock and pretty soon Gye died. Having " faith in Bullock, he left him a legacy on the condition that he take the name of Gye. So Bullock became Gye. He studied at Edinburgh University under Dr. Bennett, a cancer expert. Then he began research. "For the last two years he hasn't had a holiday-Sundays, Christmas or any other...