Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jesse Baker Snow, engineer, assistant chief of construction and design of Manhattan's Holland Vehicular Tunnel Sc.D...
...island of Bali, just east of Java, due south of Borneo, is owned by Holland but enjoys a rare domestic independence. The Dutch policy is Bali for the Balinese. With an extremely fertile soil, Bali raises and exports pigs, cattle, copra, coffee. Says Author Powell: the Balinese are furthermore the most artistic race in the world...
Field & Stream, 24 years younger, differs from its predecessor in that it opposes conservation measures which may be impracticable, based only on sentiment. Founders John P. Burkhard and Henry Wellington Wack sold it in. 1906 to Eltinge F. Warner, chain magazine publisher. Editor Ray Holland continues in charge of the joint publication, which begins with the August issue. Approximate circulation : Forest and Stream, 90,000; Field & Stream...
...autobiography concerned with his life as a cabin boy on this most unpleasant of waters is excellent reading. Unfortunately, two-thirds of the book are taken up with incidents of home life among the Frisians, and unless you are planning a summer trip to their region in Holland, there's not much use in going into the subject so deeply. It is conceivable that Mr. Pasma may write sea-fiction in the future which will be of more sustained interest than this record of his Wander-jahre...
Purchase by Forum afforded faltering Century honorable refuge from a life which, while eminently respectable, had become in recent years a burden. It was after the death in 1881 of Editor Josiah Gilbert Holland (cofounder with Roswell Smith) that Century reached the zenith of its editorial command. Then, under Editor Richard Watson Gilder, it scored its journalistic triumph with the serial life of Lincoln, by Nicolay & Hay, and a Civil War battle series written by the most important participants. Circulation reached its peak of 150,000 in 1906. Followed a gentle but inexorable decline which not even energetic Editor Glenn...