Word: hollands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among whom were many notables. The latter, who are very numerous, obtained the support of the Catholic Party; they declare that daylight saving time is entirely unfavorable to farming. It is clear that the Senate have overridden a majority demand in the interests of trade, which is affected by Holland's neighbors adopting the summer time schedule...
Citizens of the following countries are now judges of the Court: Spain, Italy, Cuba, Great Britain, Holland, Japan, France, the United States (John Bassett Moore, former Counseller of the Department of State), Denmark, Switzerland. (The eleventh seat was filled by a Brazilian, now dead.) The four deputy judges come from Rumania, China, Yugo-Slavia and Norway...
Students from the universities of Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Holland, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and England were officially present at the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants held recently at the Hague. Students from Hungary, Ireland and Latvia also attended, as did Russian Emigre students. The question of German participation was referred to the various national unions. The C. I. E. was formed in Strasbourg in 1919 "for conference about matters of educational and social interest and joint action for the furtherance of their common aims." All religious and political questions are barred. The Confederation is now convened...
...Olympic Games for 1932 have been awarded to Los Angeles. The 1924 games will be held in Paris; the 1928 games in Amsterdam, Holland...
...brush falls on them, they are people in a dream, creatures of imagination as much as Hamlet, Pickwick, Lear. If the light were turned out there would remain only burgomasters, doctors, old women paring their nails, painted with marvelous, sometimes brutal, truthfulness to actual life in 17th century Holland. In the panel recently discovered, which represents the marriage of Alexander the Great with Roxane, five sources of light are introduced- the greatest number ever observed in a single picture. Rays of evening sun from an invisible window to the left fall on Roxane and the court ladies. Daylight enters...