Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yard Freestyle Swim--Won by Holland (Springfield); second, George C. Scott '34; third, Kamienski (Michigan). Time--25 1-5 seconds...
...States of native parentage, and of the females 61 per cent. Of the foreign-born males there were 14 per cent, and of females, seven per cent. Of those native born of foreign parentage, the greatest proportion was of British descent, which was followed by the grouped countries Germany, Holland, and Switzerland...
...Wilhelm, proud head of the House of Hohenzollern, called his five sons home last week. Up the curving carriage drive of the staid villa at Doom in Holland most of them came-ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Eitel Friedrich and August Wilhelm ("Auwi"). Old Wilhelm talked plainly. He had summoned them because the excitement of his 75th birthday had passed and he was feeling old. When, as and if he died, he wanted certain dignities at his funeral. He was not well. What of the House? What of that long lost country and that long lost crown? "We," he said...
Prince-Consort Henry of Holland...
...Windisch-Graetz and the chief of police of Budapest, thought up a very simple scheme for "rehabilitating the finances of Hungary." It was nothing less than printing trunkloads of large lavender French 1,000-franc notes at the Hungarian State Cartographical Institute and dumping them in France and Holland. The forgeries were excellent, but the forgers forgot that all French 100-and 1,000-franc notes that come from the Bank of France are counted by hand and pinned together in bunches of ten. Sharp-eyed French cashiers first spotted the forgeries when banknotes began coming in with...