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# 2017–18 Basketball League of Serbia B

The 2017–18 Basketball League of Serbia B is the 12th season of the Second Basketball League of Serbia, the 2nd-tier men's professional basketball league in Serbia.

## Teams
### Promotion and relegation
#### Teams promoted to the First League (1st-tier)

* Zlatibor
* Vojvodina

#### Teams relegated from the First League (1st-tier)

* Smederevo 1953
* Konstantin

#### Teams promoted from the First Regional League (3rd-tier)

* Akademik
* Žarkovo
* Klik
* Zdravlje

#### Teams relegated to the First Regional League (3rd-tier)

* Futog Tupanjac MD
* Srem
* Jagodina
* Rtanj

### Venues and locations

| Team | City | Arena | Capacity |
| Smederevo 1953 | Smederevo | Smederevo Hall | 2,800 |
| Konstantin | Niš | Čair Sports Center | 4,000 |
| Plana | Velika Plana | TSC Velika Plana | 1,000 |
| Proleter Naftagas | Zrenjanin | Medison Hall | 3,000 |
| Pirot | Pirot | Pirot Kej Hall | 835 |
| Napredak Bosphorus | Aleksinac | Aleksinac Sports Hall | 1,000 |
| Sloboda | Užice | Veliki Park Hall | 2,200 |
| Mladost SP | Smederevska Palanka | Vuk Karadžić School Hall | 500 |
| Kolubara LA 2003 | Lazarevac | Lazarevac Sports Hall | 1,700 |
| Novi Pazar | Novi Pazar | Pendik Sports Hall | 1,600 |
| Akademik | Srbobran | Srbobran Sports Hall | 750 |
| Žarkovo | Belgrade | Žarkovo Sports Hall | 800 |
| Klik | Arilje | Arilje Sports Hall | 525 |
| Zdravlje | Leskovac | SRC Dubočica | 3,600 |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Sloboda | 26 | 23 | 3 | 2278 | 1976 | +302 | 49 | Promoted to the First League |
| 2 | Novi Pazar | 26 | 21 | 5 | 2146 | 1843 | +303 | 47 | Promoted to the First League |
| 3 | Mladost SP | 26 | 20 | 6 | 2051 | 1820 | +231 | 46 | |
| 4 | Pirot | 26 | 15 | 11 | 2109 | 2043 | +66 | 41 | |
| 5 | Napredak Bosphorus | 26 | 14 | 12 | 2174 | 2007 | +167 | 40 | |
| 6 | Žarkovo | 26 | 14 | 12 | 2062 | 1954 | +108 | 40 | |
| 7 | Klik | 26 | 14 | 12 | 1988 | 1884 | +104 | 40 | |
| 8 | Proleter Naftagas | 26 | 14 | 12 | 2081 | 2035 | +46 | 40 | |
| 9 | Zdravlje | 26 | 12 | 14 | 2147 | 2219 | −72 | 38 | |
| 10 | Kolubara LA 2003 | 26 | 12 | 14 | 2049 | 2087 | −38 | 38 | |
| 11 | Plana | 26 | 9 | 17 | 2033 | 2239 | −206 | 35 | Relegation to the Regional Leagues |
| 12 | Akademik | 26 | 7 | 19 | 2008 | 2163 | −155 | 33 | Relegation to the Regional Leagues |
| 13 | Konstantin | 26 | 5 | 21 | 1767 | 2199 | −432 | 31 | Relegation to the Regional Leagues |
| 14 | Smederevo 1953 | 26 | 2 | 24 | 1860 | 2284 | −424 | 28 | Relegation to the Regional Leagues |

## Statistics
### Individual statistic leaders

| Category | Player | Team | Statistic |
| Points per game | Nikola Kostić | Plana | 21.7 |
| Rebounds per game | Darko Rnić | Smederevo 1953 | 10.9 |
| Assists per game | Sanel Mukanović | Novi Pazar | 7.0 |
| Steals per game | Stefan Stanisavljević | Napredak Bosphorus | 2.4 |
| Blocks per game | Nemanja Arsić | Mladost SP | 2.6 |
Source: Eurobasket
# Richárd Erdős

Richárd Erdős (Brno, 18 May 1881 – 9 June 1912, Frankfurt) was a Jewish Hungarian bass opera singer who was father of the American children's author Richard Erdoes.

## Historical recordings

* Stars of Hungarian Opera, vol. 1, Hungaroton
# On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland

"On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because it was Frequented by a Lunatic", also known as Charlotte Smith's Sonnet LXX, is an early Romantic poem which uses imagery of the sea and of madness to express poetic melancholy. It is one of Smith's best-known sonnets. It was first published in 1797, in the eighth edition of Smith's Elegiac Sonnets.

## Engraving

The poem was accompanied by an engraved illustration on the previous page, depicting a man and a woman on a cliff in stormy weather. Of the engravings in the volume, this image is the only one to include a figure who could represent Smith herself. Smith was not satisfied with the image, complaining that in the final version "the expression of the Lunatic is quite changed & instead of a Madman the figure is that of a fool with a black Wig on, & his mantle looks like a piece of ploughed field flying in the Air."

## Poem

   Is there a solitary wretch who hies  To the tall cliff, with starting pace or slow, And, measuring, views with wild and hollow eyes  Its distance from the waves that chide below; Who, as the sea-born gale with frequent sighs  Chills with cold bed upon the mountain turf, With hoarse, half-utter'd lamentation, lies  Murmuring responses to the dashing surf? In moody sadness, on the giddy brink,  I see him more with envy than with fear; He has no nice felicities that shrink  From giant horrors; wildly wandering here, He seems (uncursed with reason) not to know  The depth or the duration of his woe.

### Poetic style

The poem is largely an English sonnet, except that repeating the A rhyme in the second quatrain creates an Italian-influenced octave. It is also slightly unusual that the B rhyme returns in the final couplet.

### Allusion to Walpole

Smith identifies the italicized phrase in line 11 as an allusion to Horace Walpole's controversial Gothic play The Mysterious Mother (1768). The Countess of Narbonne is warned to stay indoors due to a violent storm, and replies, "Wretches like me, good Peter, dread no storms. / 'Tis delicate felicity that shrinks, / When rocking winds are loud."

## Citations

* 1 2 Roberts 2019, p. 92.
* ↑ Labbe 2003, p. 42.
* ↑ Smith 2003, p. 267.
* ↑ Bredar 2019.
# René Gérard

René Gérard may refer to:
* René Gérard (footballer), French footballer
* René Gérard (cyclist), French racing cyclist
* René Gérard (propagandist), French WWII anti-Semitic propagandist
# Mesterháza

Mesterháza is a village in Vas county, Hungary.
# Santiago Méndez

Santiago Méndez Ibarra (1798 – 1872) was governor of Yucatán, Mexico 3 times from 1840 to 1857: 1840–44; 1847–48; 1855–57, alternating that office with Miguel Barbachano mainly during his first and second terms. Méndez was a moderate who advocated a strict conservative financial policy for the government. He was noted for his honesty, and gained no personal fortune from his years in governmental power. Santiago Méndez was more in favor of union with Mexico than Barbachano, but twice presided over Yucatán declaring its independence, due to frustration with Mexican dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Santiago Méndez was father of Concepción Méndez Echazarreta and grandfather of Justo Sierra Méndez. Justo Sierra O'Reilly, his son-in-law collaborated with him in policy.
# Sankrail railway station

The Sankrail railway station in the Indian state of West Bengal, serves Sankrail, India in Howrah district. It is on the Howrah–Kharagpur line. It is 16 km (10 mi) from Howrah station.

## History

The Howrah–Kharagpur line was opened in 1900.

## Tracks

The Howrah–Panskura stretch has three lines.

## Electrification

The Howrah–Kharagpur line was electrified in 1967–69.

## Incidents

The station has been vandalized recently by protesters against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act agitators had set ablaze the station's ticket counter and signal room.
# Sapore di sale

"Sapore di sale" (It. for "Taste of salt") is a song written and originally recorded by Italian singer Gino Paoli, in 1963.

## Background

As its composer also corroborated, "Sapore di sale" was composed in Capo d'Orlando, Sicily, "in a deserted house near a deserted beach," where Paoli was to hold concerts in a dance hall with his band and the venue's owner invited them to extend their stay for a fortnight. At the time, Paoli was married to Anna Fabbri but was carrying on an affair with young actress Stefania Sandrelli, the affair resulting in the birth of daughter Amanda Sandrelli. As Sandrelli claimed, "Sapore di sale" was inspired by her.

## Production

The song was recorded in Rome in 1963, on an arrangement by Ennio Morricone who also conducted the orchestra. Gato Barbieri performed the sax solo.

## Charts

| Chart (1963–64) | Peak position |
| Argentina (CAPIF) | 6 |
| Brazil (IBOPE) | 6 |
| Italy (Musica e dischi) | 2 |
| Spain (AFYVE) | 8 |

## Release

The song was released as a single in 1963 by RCA Italiana. Paoli entered the Cantagiro music festival with it.

## Notable covers

Gino Paoli had some success in Spain where, in October 1964, his Spanish-language version reached the 8th place in the hit parade.
# 2015 Butler Bulldogs football team

The 2015 Butler Bulldogs football team represented Butler University as a member of the Pioneer Football League (PFL) during the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by tenth-year head coach Jeff Voris, Bulldogs compiled an overall record of 6–5 with a mark of 4–4 in conference play, placing in a three-way tie for fourth in the PFL. Butler played home games at the Butler Bowl in Indianapolis.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 5 | 3:05 pm | at No. 21 Indiana State* | Memorial StadiumTerre Haute, IN | ESPN3 | L 17–52 | 3,941 |
| September 12 | 6:30 pm | Franklin (IN)* | Butler BowlIndianapolis, IN | | W 41–14 | 4,811 |
| September 19 | 7:00 pm | at Taylor* | New StadiumUpland, IN | | W 41–10 | 3,456 |
| September 26 | 12:00 pm | Campbell | Butler BowlIndianapolis, IN | | W 25–24 | 4,537 |
| October 10 | 1:00 pm | at Morehead State | Jayne StadiumMorehead, KY | | L 21–34 | 9,805 |
| October 17 | 1:00 pm | Davidson | Butler BowlIndianapolis, IN | | W 38–7 | 2,264 |
| October 24 | 6:00 pm | at Dayton | Welcome StadiumDayton, OH | | L 24–27 | 3,766 |
| October 31 | 12:00 pm | at Marist | Tenney Stadium at Leonidoff FieldPoughkeepsie, NY | | L 14–35 | 1,483 |
| November 7 | 1:00 pm | Valparaiso | Butler BowlIndianapolis, IN (Hoosier Helmet Trophy) | | W 42–21 | 5,113 |
| November 14 | 1:00 pm | Drake | Butler BowlIndianapolis, IN | | W 20–13 | 2,371 |
| November 21 | 4:00 pm | at San Diego | Torero StadiumSan Diego, CA | | L 27–28 | 3,402 |
| *Non-conference gameHomecomingRankings from STATS Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern time |||||||

## Game summaries
### At Indiana State

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bulldogs | 0 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 17 |
| #21 Sycamores | 24 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 52 |

### Franklin

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Grizzlies | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| Bulldogs | 10 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 41 |

### At Taylor

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bulldogs | 7 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 41 |
| Trojans | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |

### Campbell

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Fighting Camels | 14 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 24 |
| Bulldogs | 10 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 25 |

### At Morehead State

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bulldogs | 0 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 21 |
| Eagles | 10 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 34 |

### Davidson

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Wildcats | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| Bulldogs | 14 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 38 |

### At Dayton

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bulldogs | 10 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 24 |
| Flyers | 7 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 27 |

### At Marist

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bulldogs | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| Red Foxes | 14 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 35 |

### Valparaiso

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Crusaders | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 21 |
| Bulldogs | 14 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 42 |

### Drake

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| DU Bulldogs | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 13 |
| BU Bulldogs | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 20 |

### At San Diego

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bulldogs | 0 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 27 |
| Toreros | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 28 |
# Sanshiro

Sanshiro may refer to:
* Plawres Sanshiro, a popular anime series aired in 1983 in Japan, Hong Kong, the Middle East and Greece and Algeria
* Sanshiro Sugata, the directorial debut of the Oscar-winning Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa
* Sanshiro Sugata Part II, a 1945 film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
* Segata Sanshiro, a fictional character created by Sega to advertise the Sega Saturn in Japan between 1997 and 1998
* Sanshirō (novel), a novel written in 1908 by Natsume Sōseki, about a young man coming of age in the late Meiji Period

## People with the given name

* Sanshiro Abe (阿部 三子郎, born 1970), Japanese wrestler
* Ishikawa Sanshirō (石川 三四郎, 1876-1956), Japanese Christian socialist
* Sanshiro Murao (村尾 三四郎, born 2000), Japanese judoka
* Sanshiro Takagi (高木 三四郎, born 1975), Japanese professional wrestler
# Germán Herrera

Germán Herrera may refer to:
* Germán Herrera (footballer, born 1983), Argentine forward for Rosario Central
* Germán Herrera (footballer, born 1993), Argentine midfielder for Club Atlético Brown
# Kuruçay, Oğuzeli

Kuruçay, formerly and still informally called Kafersarı, is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Oğuzeli, Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its population is 35 (2022). The village is inhabited by Turkmens and Abdals of the Kurular tribe.
# Kuruçay, Burdur

Kuruçay is a village in the Burdur District of Burdur Province in Turkey. Its population is 234 (2021).
# 2015 Universiade

2015 Universiade may refer to:
* 2015 Summer Universiade, a summer sporting event held in Gwangju
* 2015 Winter Universiade, a winter sporting event
# Sara Wright

Sara Wright (born 21 March 1969) is a Bermudian sailor. She competed in the Europe event at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
# Santa Rosa, Utuado, Puerto Rico

Santa Rosa is a barrio in the municipality of Utuado, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 0.

## Geography

Santa Rosa is situated at an elevation of 1,132 feet (345 m) north of Caguana in Utuado, Puerto Rico. It has an area of 5.04 square miles (13.1 km$^2$).

## History

Santa Rosa was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Santa Rosa barrio was 793.
# Sarah Chakko

Sarah Chakko (13 February 1905 – 25 January 1954) was an Indian college professor and administrator, president of Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow, and the first woman to be elected to the presidency of the World Council of Churches. She was a member of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.

## Early life and education

Chakko was born in Trichur, the second daughter (the fourth of ten children) of police superintendent Mazhuvancheriparambath Avaram Chakko in Kerala. She held degrees from Queen Mary's College Madras, and Presidency College. She studied history and taught the subject from 1925, at Bentinck High School of the London Missionary Society in Madras. In 1937, she graduated with a master's degree in education at the University of Chicago.

## Career

Chakko traveled extensively to the United States, to Europe and to the Middle East. In 1936, Chakko visited the United States and gave talks at churches with her missionary colleague, Florence Salzer. 1937, she was a delegate to the World Student Christian Federation meeting in San Francisco.
In 1943, Chakko was appointed professor at the Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow; she later become president of the school. In addition to her teaching activity, she took part in the World Student Christian Federation and became its chairman for India, Burma, and Sri Lanka. In 1947, she was a vice president of the World YWCA.
She was involved in the work of the World Council of Churches (WCC). She spoke at the first assembly of the WCC in 1948, in Amsterdam. She was elected as one of the WCC's presidents in August 1951 after the resignation of T. C. Chao. She was the first woman in the presidency of the council, and the first (and for several decades the only) ecumenical functionary in the Syriac Orthodox Church. But by her work and other engagement, she was more closely related to other denominations, especially the Presbyterians and the Methodists.

## Death

In January 1954, Chakko died suddenly from a heart attack, in a sporting accident at Lucknow, just before her 49th birthday. Congregations around the world marked her death with memorial services, noting that she wrote the 1954 service theme for the World Day of Prayer. She was remembered at the annual meeting of the World Council of Churches in Evanston, Illinois, later in 1954.
# 2014 Women's U23 African Volleyball Championship

The 2014 Women's U23 African Volleyball Championship was the 1st edition of the Women's U23 African Volleyball Championship, it was held 7 to 9 September 2014 in Algiers, Algeria. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament. The tournament was organized by the African Volleyball Confederation, in association with Algerian Volleyball Federation.
The tournament served as the African qualifiers for the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship held in Ankara, Turkey which the winner team qualified for the world championship. Egypt won the tournament.

## Participated teams

| Algeria (hosts)  Botswana | Egypt  Tunisia |

## Venue

* All rounds
* Algiers, Algeria
* Hacène Harcha Arena
* Capacity: 8,000

## Final group

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR |
| 1 | Egypt | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 9.000 | 249 | 166 | 1.500 |
| 2 | Tunisia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1.500 | 225 | 197 | 1.142 |
| 3 | Algeria | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0.833 | 240 | 229 | 1.048 |
| 4 | Botswana | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.000 | 103 | 225 | 0.458 |
| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Total |
| 7 Sep | 15:00 | Egypt | 3–0 | Tunisia | 26–24 | 25–16 | 25–18 | | 76–58 |
| 7 Sep | 19:00 | Botswana | 0–3 | Algeria | 14–25 | 13–25 | 12–25 | | 39–75 |
| 8 Sep | 15:00 | Botswana | 0–3 | Egypt | 12–25 | 5–25 | 7–25 | | 24–75 |
| 8 Sep | 19:00 | Algeria | 1–3 | Tunisia | 15–25 | 21–25 | 25–17 | 20–25 | 81–92 |
| 9 Sep | 15:00 | Tunisia | 3–0 | Botswana | 25–12 | 25–12 | 25–16 | | 75–40 |
| 9 Sep | 19:00 | Egypt | 3–1 | Algeria | 25–23 | 25–16 | 23–25 | 25–20 | 98–84 |

## Final standing

| Rank | Team |
| | Egypt |
| | Tunisia |
| | Algeria |
| 4 | Botswana |
* Qualified for the 2015 World Championship
* 2014 African U23 champions
* Egypt 1st title

## Awards

* Most valuable player
    Jihen Mohamed
* Best outside spikers
    Celia Bourihane
* Best setter
    Nihel Kebaier
* Best receiver
    Nihel Ahmed
* Best server
    Celia Bourihane
* Best middle blockers
    Sarrah Hanafy
* Best libero
    Fatima Ktari
# Sarajevo Graduate School of Business

Sarajevo Graduate School of Business (SGSB) is a private university located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is mainly focused on MBA degree.
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# Kutaisi Museum of Martial Art

Kutaisi Museum of Martial Art is a museum in Kutaisi, Georgia. The Kutaisi National Museum of Military Glory preserves materials reflecting the history of Georgian martial arts, weapons, materials dedicated to World War II, photos of Kutaisi soldiers, awards, correspondence and other documents, as well as documentary materials on the wars in Abkhazia and War of 2008 with Russia.
# Gertrude Kuh

Gertrude Kuh (1893–1977) was an American landscape architect who worked primarily in the Chicago area.

## Education and personal life

Gertrude Eisendrath was born September 11, 1893, in Racine, Wisconsin, to Benjamin David Eisendrath and Frances Eisendrath. Her family moved to Chicago when she was six. She began her college education at Sweet Briar College in Virginia but quickly transferred to the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture in Groton, Massachusetts, from which she graduated in 1917.
After college, Kuh undertook an apprenticeship with the landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman in Massachusetts. In 1921, she returned to Chicago.
In 1942, Gertrude married George Kuh, whose ex-wife was Chicago art curator and gallery owner Katharine Kuh. She had been previously married to Jerome Deimel; who died in 1926. She had a son, John (b1926-d2018), with Jerome Deimel.

## Career

Over a career spanning some forty years, Kuh designed over 400 landscaping projects and gardens. Although she never took on partners, she had two associates, Mary Long Rogers and Edith Antognoli.
Little is known about her early work (prior to 1950) since Kuh discarded most of the records of these projects. Between 1950 and her retirement in the 1970s, Kuh designed some 250 landscaping projects about which somewhat more is known, mostly for private residences in and around Chicago, Lake Forest, Winnetka, Glencoe, and Highland Park, Illinois. She worked on both plantings for new construction and redesigns of existing landscaping. She was designing in an era when many large estates were being broken up into smaller parcels, and she became known for her skill at helping these small plots maintain a sense of spaciousness and privacy through such techniques as clustering trees and shrubs, planting trees with strong sculptural lines that signaled grandeur, and using color schemes that skewed towards green.
Kuh died in September 1977. Her papers are held by the Art Institute of Chicago and include letters from Shipman and an oral interview with Kuh's son John. In November 1997, the Art Institute of Chicago mounted "The Modern Midwestern Landscape," an exhibition featuring her work and that of fellow landscape architect Franz Lipp.
# Timothy Holt

Timothy or Tim Holt may refer to:
* Timothy Holt (1836–1912), American pioneer, settled village of Holts Summit, Missouri
* Tim Holt (1919–1973), American actor
* Tim Holt (statistician) (1943–2022), British statistician
* Tim Holt (American football) (born 1972), American football coach
# Royal Princess

Royal Princess may refer to:

## Ships

* Any number of a list of ships named Royal Princess

### Princess Cruises ships

Royal Princess is a name carried by several ships operated by Princess Cruises:
* MV Artania, in service as Royal Princess from 1984 to 2005
* Azamara Pursuit, in service as Royal Princess from 2007 until 2011
* Royal Princess (2012)

## Other uses

* A princess who is of a kingly ruling house in power, as opposed to a princess of a pretender house, a princess of an imperial dynasty or celebrity princess
* Dusit International, operator of Thai hotels named "Royal Princess"
# Scottish Amicable Building Society

The Scottish Amicable Building Society was founded in 1892 and became Scotland's largest building society with coverage across the United Kingdom. It faced a run on its funds in 1958 and was rescued by the Co-operative Building Society.

## History

The Society was founded in Edinburgh in 1892 as the Amicable Property Investment Building Society, later shortened to the Scottish Amicable Building Society. It remained of very modest size until after WWI – in 1922 there were only 416 members and assets totalled £86,000. The subsequent growth in the Society stemmed from the recruitment of William Allison in 1921 as manager. Allison had been a principal lecturer in business studies and joined as manager, becoming managing director and chairman. At the time of the Diamond Jubilee brochure in 1952 he was still chairman and managing director (with his son as Deputy Managing Director). By that date the Society had around 53,000 members and assets had grown to £18m. The coverage across the United Kingdom was extensive. There were district offices in Aberdeen, Ayr, Glasgow, Dundee, London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester; beneath those were 13 chief branches offices in Scotland, 14 in England and one in Belfast followed by a further 104 ordinary branches. It was later described as Scotland's largest building society.
Six years after the Society celebrated its Diamond Jubilee, it had to be rescued by the Co-operative Permanent Building Society. Ashworth described the Scottish Amicable as “a well-educated and sound society whose only trouble was that it made investments in undated and long-dated gilt-edged securities that had fallen in value owing to the rise in interest rates”. Its assets had risen to £25m but press comments indicated that the depreciation in the investments exceeded the reserve funds of the Society and there was “a flood of withdrawal notices” which the Society was unable to meet.