Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Digressing within the general topic of cancer, Sir Lenthal last week observed that life habits seem to be factors in causing certain types of cancer. The frequency of cancer in women is practically the same in Japan, England, Switzerland and Holland. England and Switzerland show large percentages of cancer of the breast and uterus, considerably more of both kinds than has The Netherlands. In Japan there is a great deal of uterine cancer, very little mammary cancer...
...appointment of Dr. Jacob Pieter Den Hartog and Mr. Arthur Casagrande as lecturers in the Harvard Engineering School was announced yesterday by H. E. Clifford, dean of the School. Dr. Den Hartog, a graduate of the Technical University at Delft, Holland, will conduct courses in Kinetics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1920, and has been affiliated with the Research Laboratory of the Westinghouse Electric Company since 1925. Before coming to Harvard he has lectured at the universities of Pittsburgh and Michigan and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
While in Doorn, Holland, this summer, a CRIMSON reporter attempted to see the exiled Wilhelm II for an interview, but His Majesty repeatedly refused to grant an interview. The reporter was finally forced to resort to correspondence. In one instance the Kaiser's opinion of the League of Nations was asked. The following vitriolic message was the answer...
Last week New York State's Board of Medical Examiners, one of the strictest in the land, shut New York's door tighter than ever. Only schools whose graduates have any chance to be examined in New York are the governmental medical schools of Austria, Germany, Holland, Hungary, the Scandinavian countries, England, Ireland and Scotland...
...York, dignified officials of the Holland America Line piled into a launch, chugged out to the Narrows, and yelled themselves hoarse cheering for the life boat crew of the Statendam racing for the international trophy of the Neptune Association which a Norwegian America liner (the Bergensfjord) won for the third time, thereby making it the permanent possession of Norway. However, the Statendam crew, gratified by the attention of the Line's officials, promised loyalty and their boat sailed on schedule for Rotterdam...