Word: homed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rich at Home. In the course of Wilhelmina's reign The Netherlands' population has risen from 5,000,000 to 8,500,000. More important, the country has changed from a predominantly agricultural to an increasingly industrial nation. Cheese, butter and tulip bulbs are still important exports, just as windmills, wooden shoes, dikes are still a part of the Dutch landscape. But more typical of The Netherlands in the 20th Century are its huge international banks, its thriving merchants, its busy manufacturers...
Netherlands Beyond the Seas includes Curacao, in the Caribbean; Surinam (formerly Dutch Guiana), in South America, and most important of all, the archipelago officially called The Netherlands Indies, known to the native inhabitants as Indonesia, called by old mariners simply The Indies. These islands, home of orangutans, Komodo dragons, hornbills and headhunters, producer of pearls, spices, rare woods, stretches 1,300 miles from North to South, 3,000 from East to West and are inhabited by 60,000,000 brown-bodied souls, not counting some 1,500,000 Asiatics and Europeans. Queen Wilhelmina has never visited her Eastern Empire (although...
...household numbers six or seven. No white woman need lift her little finger around the house. U. S. films now arrive in Java, Sumatra and Borneo with little delay, and few are the Dutch Colonials who do not own a U. S.-made car. Tinned foods from home are always available, but the most famous East Indian dish is Ryst-Tafel, which is both a ceremony and a dinner. It has a base of rice, and consists of a hundred or more side dishes including fried chicken, fried pork, beef, the entire gamut of spices, fried bananas, fried shrimps, cucumbers...
...Indies, once the bourn of every explorer, source of spices and plumes and gold, home of the noble savage, Ophir, cradle of wealth, land of the faraway dream, are now the backyard of squabbling empires. Six captious countries have their pieces...
Czech undergraduates at historic Prague University were roused to fury last week as death came to their 22-year-old political martyr, Medical Student Jan Opletal. On Oct. 28 he went out to celebrate Czechoslovak "Independence Day" and was brought home with six revolver bullets in his body. Shouting "Long Live Freedom!" and "Away With the Murderers!" his mourners marched with torchlights to Vinohradsky Square...