Word: willems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to Tombstone, Arizona's hell-roaring town of the early 1880s ... I read in TIME of April 3 that I was dead. ("Among the bylines Weyer has snared: Lowell Thomas, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Donald Culross Peattie, Oliver La Farge, the late Roy Chapman Andrews and Hendrik Willem van Loon.") It was an interesting discovery, but one to which I am not unaccustomed...
...persuades scientists and amateurs to write at his low (now 3? a word) rates instead of sending articles to the wealthier National Geographic (TIME, May 23). Among the bylines Weyer has snared: Lowell Thomas, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Donald Culross Peattie, Oliver La Farge, the late Roy Chapman Andrews and Hendrik Willem van Loon...
...Emigration can never be the complete solution," says Prime Minister Willem Drees. "We absolutely have to industrialize if we want to prevent mass unemployment in the future. Nothing hurts people's happiness so much as unemployment or the fear of unemployment...
...hardheaded commercial dealings had founded the empire. (Their pictures would soon be replaced by Soekarno's favorite paintings of Indonesian national heroes.) The old pictures sat unceremoniously on the floor: bewigged Johannes Camphuys (1684-91), great governor and great gardener, whose followers introduced coffee-growing to Java; Herman Willem Daendels (1808-11), governor general and dictatorial reformer; Johannes van den Bosch (1830-33), governor general, paternalist exponent of a forced-labor system. The workmen loaded the pictures of the past into a truck to begin their long voyage home...
...tenets of its faith can never be discussed with the least implication of compromise.* Therefore, Archbishop Michael contends, dogmatic discussions or official positions are now forbidden to priests of the Church of Greece. The World Council of Churches, he added, has already been informed through its general secretary, Willem Visser 't Hooft, of the decision...