Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four foreign astronomers, directors and staff members of observatories in Canada, Norway, Holland, and Poland, have arrived at the Harvard Observatory to carry on researches in a number of fields, it was announced yesterday. Five men visiting from other nations have just left after pursuing their researches with the aid of the Observatory staff, it was also learned...
...General Motors' present leaning to aviation may be considered world-spread. General Motors is the emergency reservoir whence Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker draws cash and credit for his airplane factories in Holland and nine other European countries. Last week he disembarked at England from the U. S. and hastened to Mr. Sloan's transient London quarters. There they held a quick, pointed conference on combining European and American Fokker interests into a worldwide organization with factories on both continents and a centralized sales agency. Quickly after the talk Mr. Fokker left England in his private trimotored plane...
...world's highest medical tributes of last week went to two Johns Hopkins' medical men-William Henry Welch and William Holland Wilmer. To Dr. Wilmer the University dedicated the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute and to Dr. Welch the William H. Welch Medical Library. At the same time, the University inaugurated a Department of the History of Medicine and installed Dr. Welch as its head. Dr. Wilmer. William Holland Wil mer, 66, tall, blondish son of an Episcopal Bishop, is incontestably the greatest eye surgeon the U. S. has ever had.* Every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland...
...Tarn in southern France. News agencies turned toward Albi last week. Paris reporters trod its cobbled streets to attend and report the trial of Albi's famed "acid bandits": one Gleizes, a horse dealer, and one Aubes, a shopkeeper, accused of holding up the automobile of wealthy Mme. Holland, Albi businesswoman. Flinging vitriol in her face to blind her, they robbed her, left her in agony by the roadside. Into Albi's courtroom walked Mme. Rolland last week, the hideous burns on her face half-hidden by a bandage. "You thought that you would blind me!" she cried...
...William Holland Wilmer, 66, great Johns Hopkins eye specialist and teacher, has cured many a desperate eye affliction. Grateful patients led by Mrs. Henry Breckinridge four years ago gave the university more than $4,000,000 to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute in his honor and under his direction. This week the building was dedicated, unique in that it is the first of its kind to be associated with both a medical school and a general hospital...