Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Holland, R S, 54 Hastings
...Cornell crew last year. The Leander crew, which is considered the best of the English crews, is made up as follows: Stroke, H. Gold; 7, T. E. Stretch; 6, Guy Nickells; 5, E. R. Balfour; 4, R. Carr; 3, E. C. Sherwood; 2, H. Graham; how, W. F. C. Holland...
Special races, scratch.- T. P. Conneff, Holy Cross College, vs. Chas. Kilpatrick, Union College, New York, three quarter mile; Lohnes, W. C. G. A. A., vs. Holland, S. A. C., 440 yards...
...veritable gold panic set in. The nations of Europe were prompt to take alarm at the menace to industry, and even to the social structure. Holland, Portugal and England demonetized gold and Russia prohibited the export of silver. One English financier is quoted as saying that soon gold would only be "fit for the dustpan...
...expense to this great work was three millions sterling. This recoinage of silver in 1696 removed what had been the chief obstacle to a fair trial of national bimetallism in England, namely, the general corruption of the circulating coin. But still gold was distinctly overvalued in the circulation, while Holland and France were less favorable to gold, more favorable to silver. Consequently these two countries drew away England's new silver coin, replacing it with gold. Finally England tried to check this flow of silver by reducing the value of the guinea to meet the demands of foreign markets...