Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month ago the storks passed south over Berlin. Last week the violet skies of Avignon were grey and winter rains shuddered over the cobblestones of Paris. Ice edged out from the banks of canals in Holland, and in the Dolomites snow crunched underfoot. Ukranian peasants used to say: "nash didus ide," meaning that winter, a bundled-up old grandfather, had come to visit. They did not say that this year. All Europe feared the fourth winter of World War II. It would be known as the year of organized hunger...
Hollandsche Biefstuk. The proprietor of the Restaurant Royal in The Hague, where Hollandsche Biefstuk was a specialty, used to say: "My patrons eat me poor and drink me rich." They drank him rich no more. Holland's food ration was cut as winter approached. The Nazis announced that all men capable of bearing arms would be conscripted for service in Germany ("Dutchmen must not only work with their hands, they must also use weapons to guard Europe"). To enforce their decree the Nazis said that Dutch parents "who do not collaborate in the new order will have their children...
This fantastic vitamin was isolated in 1936 by Professor Fritz Kögl of Utrecht, Holland but Biochemist Vincent Du Vigneaud of Cornell and his colleagues identified it as an animal vitamin in 1940. The possible molecular patterns ran into millions. Last January, Dr. Du Vigneaud and colleagues were able to announce that the possible molecular patterns had been reduced to five; then when the position of the nitrogen atoms was ascertained, these were...
Supported by an affable group of youngsters, Woolley tramps through Holland and Relgium behind the rush of the German armies, and manages to pick up, in addition to a junior League of Nations, a growing awareness of the import of the struggle in which his country is engaged. Roddy MacDowall-the young Hugh Morgan in "How Green Was My Valley"--is Woolley's chief companion on his strange pilgrimage, but Anne Baxter and a number of others are equally effective in lesser roles. There are Nazis barging in and out of the scenes, too, and Shute has wisely refrained from...
...proteges, has approved only two loans totaling $65,000. A major explanation of this picayune record may be the all-too-characteristic fact that, although the corporation was authorized by law in June, it did not get a head (Kansas City Little Businessman Lou Holland) until July, a headquarters (the Raleigh Hotel) until August, or an administrative order permitting it to employ a staff until September. Nonetheless the same trade sources that claim that 45,000 small manufacturers are fully equipped to handle war contracts they cannot land, also believe that not more than 15,000 will ever be able...