Word: leyden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mask of Dimitrios (Warners). When Cornelius Latimer Ley den (Peter Lorre), a writer of detective thrillers, first saw Dimitrios Makropoulos (Zachary Scott), Dimitrios lay murdered on a slab in the Istanbul morgue (see cut). Scenting a story, Leyden decided to case Dimitrios' history...
Christian Krediet, a former student at Leyden University, describes the reaction of Dutch colleges to the "pacification" imposed by the Nazis. This resistance does not stop at grumbling. Articles such as Krediet's and those on British and Russian students is past issues of "Threshold" are striking disproof of the theory that "decadence" and "softness" fully describe young men and women in the United Nations...
...represented the United States government at the World Federation of Education Association's meeting at Tokyo, Japan. In 1939 he organized an Institute of International Affairs at Leyden University, Holland...
...reward for their bravery in fighting Spanish rule, William of Orange three and a half centuries ago offered Leyden's burghers the gift of i) a university, or 2) freedom from taxation. They chose the university. Last November Nazis took over the university and promptly fired one of its most brilliant and popular professors, 61-year-old Eduard Maurits Meyers...
When he finished, Leyden's students cheered wildly. Next morning Nazis arrested Professor Cleveringa and sent him to a concentration camp. Instead of bowing, students paraded and shouted in Leyden's streets, raised such a commotion that the Germans closed the university...