Word: dyk
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Paterson, N. J, seven young engineering students?George Duggan, Henry Walstenholme, Richard Jenkinson, Julian and Edward Yzewyn, Tice Van Dyk and Frederick Bomelyn?have been improving their summer evenings by prowling along the shores of the Passaic River with a dip needle, the instrument used to locate subsurface metals. Last week, under a bridge, the needle dipped strenuously. The prospectors seized shovels, dug, ejaculated, waved their shovels in muddy triumph. Their buried treasure was not a cache of pirate bullion, or a mastodon's skull, but an 18-foot iron hull designed to run under water; a submarine of primitive...
...Queen Mother Emma. Her daughter, Queen Wilhelmina, is undoubtedly more popular, more Dutch, more well-beloved; but the Queen Mother is Royal, as though by Right Divine-in the manner of Alexandra, late British Queen Mother. Therefore last week it was naturally Queen Emma who received at Castle Soest Dyk, her summer residence, a lady who is the consort of Wilhelm II and is known in the Netherlands as "Empress" Hermine...