Word: hollande
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Lately the struggle toward Absolute Zero has been led by Holland's University of Leyden and the University of California, both of which have tremendous magnets. For the final push they used highly magnetic salts-gadolinium sulphate octahydrate in California, cerium fluoride in Leyden. In 1933 Leyden was within .27° C. of Absolute Zero. Then California got it down to .16°. Then Leyden reached...
...Holland, England and the Scandinavian countries have no inhibitions against birth control practices. Spain became somewhat liberal after the Republican Government took charge. Germany was liberal until the Hitler ascendancy...
...River Aisne. All this gives The Iron Mother, which might have been just another story of a dominating female, a salty, Gallic flavor, which will take U. S. readers into the atmosphere of a culture that is far, far away in spirit. The translation, by Vyvyan Holland, is supple, muscular-French prose rendered in good English prose...
Dwight M. Clapp Scholarship: Daniel J. Holland, Jr., 2Dn., of Chelses, Mass...
...forcing process, whether at home in Switzerland or at the Artillery School at Thun. Hortense, Louis' mother, was soaked in the Napoleonic idea. The daughter of Josephine, she had achieved a double relationship to Bonaparte when she was married off to his brother, the crippled King of Holland. After Waterloo she gave up her lovers and let her beauty run to fat in order to train the young Louis for the role of Pretender. It did not matter that Louis was an eight-month child, and probably no blood relation of Bonaparte...