Word: gerrit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Netherlands' border police last week took into custody Gerrit Albrink, 30, son of a Nazi member of the Dutch Parliament, employe of a German garage owner now serving with the Nazi Air Force. In Albrink's car when he tried to drive into Germany were an assortment of Dutch uniforms-soldiers', railroad guards', postmen's-obviously not intended for a fancy dress ball...
...detected in her blood or what she modestly euphemizes as "other fluids." On the fifth day she takes a half-teaspoonful of cystine, cysteine, d-1-methionine, l-methionine, cystine-disulfoxide, sulfonic acid or cysteic acid, the seven body sulfur compounds crystallized by Lankenau's Chemist Gerrit Toennies. For the next 24 to 36 hours Miss Medes remains alone and foodless in her laboratory taking samples of her blood every half-hour, other fluids whenever possible. The week-long experiment over, she then goes to her boarding house, a block away from her laboratory, to recover from starvation with...
...group of oil paintings now on exhibit at the Bake Library of the Business School in Room 223 contains some outstanding studies of industrial subjects by Gerrit A. Beneker. More restricted in field than the late Joseph Pennell, Mr. Beneker has undertaken to show only the art of steel manufacture and the men who engage in the task. Unlike the etchings of Pennell which represent merely the image that reaches the human eye, the rich oils of Beneker convey all the realism of being, and all the strength and solidity of steel. Perhaps it is the medium in which...
Near Zeeland, Mich. Gerrit Wyngarden was struck in the eye by a stray bullet while hunting. He went to Ann Arbor for treatment, found he might lose the sight of both eyes. Then he was stricken with appendicitis, underwent an emergency appendectomy. Then, while Gerrit Wyngarden was recovering, his wife was brought to bed of a child, died. Next day his chicken hatchery, sole means of subsistence, burned to the ground...
...Died. Gerrit John Diekema, 71, U. S. Minister to the Netherlands (he was born in Holland, Mich.), onetime (1907-11) U. S. Representative from the 5th Michigan District; of pneumonia after an abdominal operation; at The Hague...