Word: hollands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week at Bad Kissingen, Germany, E. D. Bogoljubow, onetime Russian chess champion, paced the floor while he awaited his opponent's move. When Dr. Max Euwe of Holland made his move and pushed the handle on the timepiece that began eating up the seconds allotted to Bogoljubow, the latter made no lunge for the seat which he had vacated. In his mind the board was quite as clear as though he had it placed before him. He was not worried. All he needed was a draw to win first place in the International Grand Masters Tournament, to repeat...
...placid and usually reclining cows of Holland seem like living symbols of Peace. They gave of their milk, last week, to refresh and quench the thirst of some 500 non-tippling adolescents, who assembled at Eerde, in the Netherlands, for the first World Youth Peace Congress...
...port of Antwerp from the fear of any interference in case of war. They have suggested that we take a part of Germany in compensation, but the Dutch do not desire that way. The only case in which our ownership of these provinces, which we have owned ever since Holland had a separate existence, could embarrass Belgium is in case of war between the two countries, which is unthinkable. We rely on the good sense of both sides for an eventual settlement. We expect no trouble...
Concluding with a reference to finance, Jonkheer Beelaerts said: "In 1924 we obtained an American loan of $40,000,000 which will be repaid in 1929. That loan was raised in America not because we could not get money in Holland, but as a matter of deliberate policy...
...flame of deep religious passion enkindle your souls, as this alone can maintain a high tradition for the Olympic Games and realize their sublime ideal."-Baron Pierre De Coubertin, at the opening of the IXth Olympiad in Amsterdam, Holland, last week. It was he who was chiefly responsible for the revival of modern Olympiades in 1896. "Once again it's America against the world."-Typical statement in U. S. newspapers. And so the IXth Olympiad opened in Amsterdam's red brick stadium in the presence of Prince Consort Henry and Master of Ceremonies Baron A. Schimmelpenninck...