Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's cross country team ran into competition way outside its class Saturday and finished seventh in a field of ten in the Annual Heptagonal Cross Country Title Race held at Van Cortlandt Park in the Brenx, New York...
...Special Committee on the Balkans). Instead of answering, the Albanian representative attacked the Greek government, saying that it cherished "mad" territorial designs on his country and that it had committed no less than 1,565 "armed provocations." Some of them, he added solemnly, were led by U.S. General James Van Fleet. Furthermore, said the Bulgarian spokesman, UNSCOB was a hand-picked group coached by the Greek "monarcho-fascists...
...dawn, a bleary-eyed night porter at The Hague's stuffy Hotel des Indes (named for The Netherlands' once vast and profitable colonies) opened the heavy oaken door for a weary guest, who went promptly to his room, and to sleep. He was slim, patient Jan Herman van Royen, able career diplomat and chief Dutch troubleshooter at The Hague Round Table Conference, which had been called to settle the differences between Indonesia and The Netherlands (TIME, Sept. 5). Van Royen had just wound up a crucial committee meeting which seemed to assure the conference's success...
...Van Waters said the ban has interfered with the institution's mother-and-child program and "it is bad for the adolescent girls under 21, of whom there are 80 in the institution...
...urging support of proposed legislation which would set up a releasing beard to allow outside work by inmates. Dr. Van Waters said 218 women saved $18,000 received as wages for indenture employment...