Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Netherlands. Queen Wilhelmina, the Prince Consort and Premier Colijn toured the flooded districts in a motorboat followed by a second boat loaded with provisions for distribution to marooned sufferers. The floods in the valleys of the Lek and Waal were described as -"catastrophic." Numberless fresh water dykes burst. The enormous hydro-electric pumps installed against just such an emergency were barely able to save the country from irretrievable damage...
...officially sanctioned Soviet chess "king" and "queen" are pieces carved to represent a working man and a peasant woman. The "pawns" bear the insignia of "Pionerki": a political society for children that have not yet reached the age for entry into the Young Communist League...
...Queen Marie of Roumania, famed matchmaker for Balkan dynasties, long ago devised a sentimental formula to account gracefully for her inability to manage her eldest son, the Crown Prince Carpi...
...Princeton team has not lived up to the expectations of its supporters this season, having lost a majority of the games played so far. Queen's College of Canada scored an easy victory over the men from Nassau last Wednesday night and previously the St. Nicholas Amateur Club of New York City, and the Royal Military College of Canada had registered wins at the expense of the Tigers. In the Queen's College game the Canadians had little difficulty in outskating their opponents. Prince- ton has an unusually heavy defense line, but it is slower than it should...
...Princetonians suffered an injury in the Queen's College game, when Charles, the heaviest man on the ice, was hurt in body checking a Canadian forward. He may not be able to get into the fray tomorrow as a result