Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tolls, it built the Outerbridge Crossing (Staten Island to Perth Amboy. N. J.); the Goethals Bridge (Staten Island to Elizabeth. N. J.): the Bayonne Bridge (Staten Island to Bayonne. N. J.); the George Washington Bridge (Manhattan to Fort Lee. N. J.). It also owns and operates profitably the Holland Vehicular Tunnel, is now planning a second vehicular tube under the Hudson. It is building a 16- million-dollar inland terminal to be used as a receiving centre for all less-than-a-carload railroad freight. An efficient, businesslike, self-sustaining public agency, it is comparatively free from petty politics...
...Italy 9 12 11 63 Japan 7 6 4 37 Sweden 9 3 3 36 France 8 4 2 34 Finland 5 5 8 33 Germany 3 10 4 33 Great Britain 4 6 5 29 Canada 2 4 10 24 Hungary 6 1 4 24 Holland 2 4 1 15 Australia 3 1 0 11 Argentina 3 1 0 11 South Africa 2 0 3 9 Austria 1 1 2 7 Ireland 2 0 0 6 Czechoslovakia 1 1 0 5 Mexico 0 2 1 5 India 1 0 0 3 Denmark 0 1 1 3 Philippines...
...races last week. Big Helene Madison of Seattle, who was planning to retire last week after a year of setting more records than she can remember, won her two free-style races, at 100 and 400 metres, though not as easily as everyone had expected. Willy Den Ouden of Holland and Mrs. Eleanor Garrati Sayville of California paced her to a new Olympic record of 1:06.8 in the first. Lenore Right was never more than a foot behind in the 400-metre race which set a world's record...
...give him sea room at the start of the ninth race. The judges disallowed the protest, disqualified Skipper Le Brun. He took his claim to the Olympic Protest Committee which differed with the judges, awarded Skipper Le Brun a first place that gave France the monotype championship instead of Holland, 87 points to 85. Sweden won the six-metre boat championship. The other yachting championships went to two U. S. boats-Gilbert Gray's star sloop Jupiter, Owen Churchill's eight-metre boat Angelita...
Taught & stimulated by Professor de Schweinitz at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor William Holland Wilmer at Johns Hopkins, Professor John Martin Wheeler of Columbia, and their compeers. U. S. eye surgeons have developed a marvelously precise technique. Their scalpels are slim. Their scissors resemble manicuring scissors. Needles are feather light, thread gossamer thin...