Word: scotlande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sending out from your station. I am listening in every night from Monday until Thursday. Would like you to announce my name from your station next Thursday night, saying how well I received the program in Truro. I am quite a Scotch entertainer myself. My home is Glasgow, Scotland. I am on the staff of the college here in charge of the Physical Training...
Downing however, was destined to be the most distinguished member of his class. Having gone to England after his graduation he was knighted in 1660, and made a baronet in 1663. These marks of distinction were the results of his valuable work in Scotland and his services as the Ambassador to the Netherlands under Cromwell and Charles II and Member of Parliament. Dying in 1684, George Downing has left numerous collections of poems and letters, which are flavored not only by his own characteristics but also by the atmosphere of the times in which he lived...
Professor Adams is a graduate of Glasgow University, Scotland, and was knighted by King George in 1925 for his service to education. He is Examiner in all the universities of England, a Fellow of the College of Preceptors, London, and Principal of the London Day Training College, a school of the University of London. He has been principal of Aberdeen and Glasgow Training Colleges, and lecturer in Education at the University of Glasgow, as well as president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and of the British Association, Educational Section. In 1902 Dr. Adams was named University Professor of Education...
...Nantes, France, the undertakers reported last week that they were four days behind with their burials. Their crogue-morts* complained of sore feet and demanded subsidy for new shoes. In Italy the authorities claimed they have no epidemic. But no gloss was smeared over the situation in Spain, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. In Denmark King Christian and Queen Alexandrine were bedridden, and in Spain 200,000 politically less important people were afflicted...
...Schwab then referred to the youthful hardships of Bertie Charles Forbes? learning short-hand at 13 in his native Scotland; leaving school at 14 to be a printer's devil: reporting news at meagre wages for the Dundee Courier; helping to found the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa, aged 21; reporting news, at no salary, for the New York Journal of Commerce. "There were days and nights of drudgery during which the one thing he wanted was a smile," said Mr. Schwab's article...