Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome, Copenhagen, Havan, Torquay, Warsaw and New Orleans last week a conspiracy began to close in against France. Six nations' tennis teams eliminated six others from the second round of international Davis Cup play. The U. S. defeated Mexico; Australia, Cuba; England, Rumania; Denmark, Jugoslavia; Poland, Holland; Italy, Egypt. The French, defending Davis Cup champions since 1927, were alarmed, but not by numbers. They knew that only three nations had a chance and that at least one new tennis phenomenon must be found to take the Davis Cup away from France. Failing the phenomenal, aging (32) Henri Cochet would...
...third round of the tournament. In the second round Kilcullen knocked Feary down once and Feary knocked Kilcullen down twice. In the third round, Feary scored his 33rd knockout in 38 recorded fights. In the semifinal, he scored the 34th when the handler of his opponent. Jack Holland of New Orleans, took off his shirt and threw it into the ring. His opponent in the final, George Schultz of Cleveland, stayed on his feet till the third round when Feary knocked him down for eight seconds and won the decision...
...treaties of Versailles, St. Germain, and Trianon have remained intact only through post-war loans extended to the countries of Eastern and Central Europe by the United States and Great Britain," said Dr. Kalman de Buday D.E., honorary Fellow of the Economic Institute of Holland, and Secretary of the National Hungarian Industrial Institute, in an interview last night...
...sprints the Casey brothers, and McManus of Boston College, Bell of M.I.T., and Crickard, Brown, and Niles of Harvard are outstanding. MacKenzie of Northeastern, E. Carey, Holland, and Merritt of Boston College, and Cheek and Streeter of Harvard should score in the hurdle races. King, Parks, Smith, and Whelan are strong B.C. quarter-milers and Jewett of M.I.T. should also score. Harvard has Niles, Maguire, and Piper...
...meeting unexpected friends here tonight." Then the meeting grew chummy, with much talk of "sharing" (mutual confession), "surrender" (conversion) and spiritual fellowship. There were preachers, athletes, college professors, brokers, an elderly gentleman described as a retired 'legger. socialites from Manhattan, Louisville, Holland, South Africa, England-all pleasant, engaging folk, none of them shabby or pasty or odd-looking...