Word: holland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what, exactly, does it mean? On the most obvious level, it means what everyone knows: that money is losing value. But it also means that we are in the grip of a wave similar to what, in 17th century Holland, was known as the Tulip Mania. The tulip was then a comparatively new import from the Near East, and mutant specimens, with irregular stripes, were prized as rarities-so prized that men would mortgage their villas and their fields. The tulips had little intrinsic value. Their worth as commodities was a function of pure, irrational desire, and their economic fate...
...1960s, Trenton began to stir again. Mayor Arthur Holland decided to try to restore the now dilapidated Mercer Street as the "Georgetown of Trenton." Hearing about the revival, E.J. began visiting the area again and three years ago bought a three-story row house at 126 Mercer Street for $4,500. "Always, always, I wanted to get back to Trenton," she told friends. "It's the best of all worlds. The neighbors are concerned about each other. Living on Mercer Street is perfect for me." She spent $70,000 to restore the 200-year-old house...
...Holland's leading Christologist is called in for questioning...
...Mary Holland '81, who works at the Women's Clearinghouse, established this year to offer information on women's issues, says many students are unaware that Walzer is the dean to seek out on these issues...
...Department refused to release their names, but the identities of most of them gradually became known. Among them were political officers, Marines, code clerks, secretaries, the kinds of people who staff American embassies throughout the world. Tomseth, the second in command, was the ranking captive. Those held included Mike Holland, the burly security chief; Ann Swift, an efficient, Farsi-speaking officer who during the takeover tried over and over to reach the acting Defense Minister; Mike Matrinko, who was a consul in Tabriz last spring when the mission was overrun by revolutionaries; and John Graves, the bearded public affairs officer...