Word: van
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decoration, given in recognition of his efforts towards strengthening the bonds of friendship between the United States and Holland, was presented by the consul of the Netherlands, N. G. Van Velzen, at the consulate in Boston...
...bare toes. But in Jack's next match, he faced no eccentric pushover. He ran up against a 19-year-old, six-foot-one Golden Boy from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn, who prefers Welby because he thinks Sidney sounds like Percy, showed an overhead game like Budge's, a forehand like Vines's, a backhand like nobody's and a service like sixty to nudge the tired veteran Bromwich (a year his senior) out of the tournament...
Died. John Wesley Van Dyke, 89, self-made oil tycoon, strong-handed board chairman of Atlantic Refining Co., president of nine oil companies; after long illness; in Philadelphia...
Army Commander: Lt. General E. M. Van den Bergen...
...Brother of the late Willard Huntington Wright,"S. S. Van Dine." *LEONARDO DA VINCI Macmillan...