Word: hollander
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When she ascended the throne, Victoria was still Queen and men still looked to the future with easy confidence. When she stepped down, Holland was clearing away the ruins of World War II, and soon, with the loss of the fabled East Indies, the Dutch empire, once the third largest in the world (after the British and French), shrank to one-fourth of its size...
...governess insisted on praying with her, she wrote: "I declared the prayer null and void." She was an imperious little girl. One morning, when she knocked at her mother's bedroom door and was asked "Who's there?", she replied: "The Queen of The Netherlands." Wilhelmina kept Holland out of World War I only to become embroiled in controversy after it was all over. Unannounced, Germany's defeated Kaiser Wilhelm entered the neutral Netherlands and requested-and got-sanctuary. It was to the Kaiser that Wilhelmina addressed what is probably her best-known remark...
...John L. Holland, "Undergraduate origins of American scientists." Science, 126, 433-37, 6 September...
...anthropologists, social psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, and economists? Social scientists combine intuition, reason, and appeal to fact into an epistemological hybrid that frequently puts them in the doghouse of both scientists and humanists. They have emerged only recently from philosophy or the study of history, and the studies by Holland and Roe show that, psychologically, they, like the humanists, differ in some respects from scientists. The relations between the social sciences and the natural sciences really deserve a complete treatment. Rather than make an abortive attempt here, we leave the issue aside...
Under the discerning eyes of such distinguished beauty spotters as Comedian Bob Hope and Mrs. Jenifer Armstrong-Jones, Tony's stepmother, eight fetching finalists paraded in London for the title of Miss World. Chosen: Catharina Ladders, 20, a green-eyed, 37-23-37, brunette fashion model from Holland. Said Catharina modestly: "I don't think I'm the most beautiful girl in the world . . . I am the most beautiful girl here...