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...traveler who went to Hoorn on the Zuider Zee was face to face with a warning. Once one of the country's great trading centers, Hoorn's crabbed brown houses now totter over narrow, idle streets. On the silent waterfront stands the old East India warehouse, once filled with the sharp scents of the spice trade. Hoorn had been made useless when the North Sea Canal was cut to Amsterdam in 1876. From the town square, an imposing statue looks down at the idle harbor. It is Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Holland's great governor of the East...
...Legg Menn Begun Givin New Buchs Inda Loupe Yeska-Day. Zee Pages List New Numbers Fore Every Phon Inda Citti, Annal Taiche Affek Sept. 18 Withee New Dial Sistrump...
...than uncovering the beginnings of his interest in Psychology, since he can recall no particular traumatic experience that accounts for it. However," as a freshman in 1915 I was greatly perplexed by Muensterberg's thickly accented Germanic lectures in Psychology A. I puzzled over his worry as to whether 'zee post was zere or not zere'...I think my addiction to psychology since that time is due in part to my determination to unravel the Muensterbergian puzzles. I can't say I've solved them...
Finding their English misunderstood un less spoken with a French accent, instructors soon learned to say "Zis ees zee way" instead of "This is the way." The apt Frenchmen were soon embellishing their meager English with a Southern accent...
...eastward in The Netherlands, north of the Lek (northern branch of the lower Rhine). This might foretell a Nazi evacuation of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague. It might mean that the Germans were afraid of being cut off in the western Netherlands by an Allied push to the Zuider Zee. More probably, it meant that they needed the Dutch garrison to help man the Rhine. As against 70 or 80 divisions in December, Rundstedt was now estimated to have no more than 40 or 50 in the west. Since Dday, the Germans had lost over a million prisoners, plus...