Word: hollande
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Nazi authorities in Holland warned the Dutch press: "Unless there is an end to the practice of publishing a whole page of pictures of dogs on the main news pages when Hitler meets Mussolini or Horthy, or when the German Army has made sensational advances on the Eastern Front, severe action will be taken. We are just tired of this sort of thing...
...successful decade (their only one) following the turn of the century. E. M. Wheelwright '76, one of the founders, was selected as architect, and the convenient site half-way between the Hygiene Building and the Psychological Clinic was chosen. The outside was designed in the style of 16th century Holland, and the inside in the style of the "Blucbcard's Palace" on the Revere Beach midway. It is triangular, consisting of three walls and a standpipe. A brass ibis has been perched on the latter almost without interruption since the beginning, though it has frequently been requested to leave...
...years after he became Tsar, Peter began to woo the sea. He learned on a Russian lake how to trim a sheet and ease a tiller. Later he went to Holland disguised as Peter Mikhailov, able-bodied seaman, there took a job in shipyards and learned how to warp gnarled oak into clean ship shape with his own hands. He learned navigation, piloting, naval tactics...
...special task force made up of marines, soldiers, sailors, trained for a quick and powerful sally into any trouble that develops on the Atlantic side of the continent. Complete down to transports and an air wing and commanded by the Marines' Major General Holland...
Died. Jonkheer Hugo Loudon, 81, board chairman of the great Royal Dutch Oil Co.; in Wassenaar, German-occupied Netherlands. He remained in The Netherlands when the Germans invaded Holland, though the seat of his company was transferred to Curagao...