Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Included in this writer's morning mail a few days ago was a postcard he had sent himself from Holland. This represented a momentary interest in the speed of the trans-Atlantic mails. On the back of the card was glossy photo graph of a neat white sloop knifing along a Dutch canal, with three well-starched citizens grinnning proudly on its deck...
...Scenic Holland...
...only sailors that laugh in Holland are the ones who rent their boats to other people...
Tentative plans have been made to help at least three groups: the "Hot Universitaire Alsyfonds" an organization set up in Holland to help students fleeing from Eastern finish their education in Holland's Universities; The Scuola Citta Pestalozzi, an experimental school in Florence's most overcrowded and poorest districts for the aid and education of orphans and children of poor families; and a central aid committee in Paris which relays specially prepared packages to tubercular students in universities throughout France...
...else there might be. There was a pocketknife for opening beer bottles, a handkerchief and 1,650 Belgian francs. Nothing else." Bravely the bold aeronaut straightened the pink tie that hung across his cream-colored shirt. Belgium and the motorboat were fast disappearing in the gloaming to windward. As Holland's Walcheren Island coasted by, van der Straeten noticed a steamer below. He valved gas out of the bag above his head, came down low and shouted, "Help!" A sailor on the deck of the steamer looked up. "What?" he cried, but the wind had carried Joseph...