Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prodigy, whose scientific name is Amorphophallus titanum and which is called krubi by the islanders of its native Sumatra, was the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx. Only five times before had Amorphophallus titanum bloomed outside the Sumatra jungle-twice in London's Kew Gardens, once in Holland, once in Germany, once in a botanical garden in Java. During last week's excitement Assistant Curator Wendell Holmes Camp observed that The Bronx's plant was probably the ''most photographed plant in the history of botany...
When James Hampton Kirkland of Spartanburg, S. C., eight years out of the University of Leipzig, took over Vanderbilt in 1893, it was chiefly because the bickering Methodist Episcopal bishops who ran it could agree on none but a dark horse candidate. Twenty years earlier Bishop Holland McTeyeire had extracted from his wife's cousin-in-law, "Commodore'' Cornelius Vanderbilt, a $500,000 endowment. An unexpectedly dark horse, Chancellor Kirkland insisted on appointing his own Board of Trust to manage it. When the Church refused to relinquish control, Chancellor Kirkland broke its grip in Tennessee...
Only those nations will be visited which have achieved the highest development of the new forms--Germany, Scandinavia, Russia, Holland, England, Poland, Belgium and France. Listed among the special stops are Westminster Cathedral and London Tower, the Kremlin, and the Paris 1937 Exposition...
...Bruening remained in Germany and was active in the elections of the next year which preceded the Nazi rise to power. He left the country a few months before the Nazi "blood purge" of June, 1934, and has not returned since. He has lived for the most part in Holland and Switzerland...
Briggs Cage, Soldiers Field, sees an assembly of 900 Cambridge Boy Scouts tonight when Governor Hurley commissions one of them as official representative to the International Jamboree in Holland this summer. Exhibitions of Scoutcraft skill will feature the meeting, including the erection of a 75 foot suspension bridge in ten minutes...