Word: hollands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Manhattan the National Horse Show was celebrated (see p. 36); in it, the most spectacular events were those in which Army officers from Poland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Canada, and the U. S. competed against each other. The idea was to determine which one had the best horses and riders; the means of deciding was to have each team ride its mounts around the ring, over jumps. If a horse knocked off the top-bar of a fence (a grave fault), it counted points against him; if he touched it with a lagging hoof (a minor fault) perhaps...
...Maurice Holland, director of the National Research Council's division of engineering and industrial research, published his Industrial Explorers (Harper's, $3), describing the work of 19 scientists who lead the industrial research of companies smart enough to hire them...
...Westinghouse, Bell Telephone, U. S. Steel and others have their own research staffs. The research leaders. The fine character, the sure knowledge and the adept application of the men who lead industrial research in this country have done incalculable good in this persuasion of industrialists. Those described in Maurice Holland's Industrial Explorers epitomize the profession. For example: Willis Rodney Whitney, 60, directs nearly 400 chemists, physicists, engineers, research assistants, machinists, glass blowers, electricians, stenographers, clerks, for General Electric. They work in laboratories at Schenectady, N. Y., Lynn and Pittsfield, Mass., Cleveland. On his staff are Dr. William David...
...necklace was conceived. Pearl by perfect pearl, it grew until six months ago the fifty-ninth completed the only famous necklace now in existence. All the others have been broken up, have disappeared: the Comtesse de Castiglione's was sold for $84,000 in 1901; Queen Sophie of Holland's (133 pearls) was sold for $188,000; a few years ago, Carder distributed the $1,000,000 Thiers necklace...
...lovingly on Amsterdam. Then he returned to the Thames-side with a dual satisfaction. In addition to his auction room success he had persuaded the Six family to withhold a series of ancestral oils from public sale. He, Sir Henry, would dispose of them advantageously, to the credit of Holland, the Sixes, the artists...