Word: hendriks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conference itself was conspicuous for its lack of New Deal animosity. A good many sessions were devoted to familiar Chemurgician products like soy beans, tung oil (for paint), Jerusalem artichokes (for alcohol), slash pine (for paper). A "Pioneer Cup" was awarded to Leo Hendrik Baekeland, father of the plastic industry (Bakelite), though that aging chemist did not bother to come out of his Florida retirement to receive it in person. Mr. Garvan delivered his usual harangue in favor of blending alcohol with gasoline. But most of the speakers were either technical experts or working vice presidents of corporations...
...Cornell, Columbia, Harvard accepted without controversy. But the Heidelberg invitations soon raised a full-sized rumpus among undergraduates, alumni, faculty members. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, cruising in the Caribbean, heard that liberal students were up in arms against Columbia's acceptance. In the Cornell Sim Historian Hendrik Willem Van Loon, "a 101% Aryan," looked into his Alma Mater's past, doubted "that Hitler's bright boys would care to associate with representatives of a university founded by that eminently broad-minded Quaker, Ezra Cornell...
Hence, this week the U. S. Senate sees Elmer Austin Benson take a place beside Minnesota's Hendrik Shipstead as No. 2 Farmer-Laborite Senator. Benson's age: 40. His manner: mild, cautious. His religion: Lutheran. His disposition: silent Norwegian determination. His habits : abstemious. His appearance: well-groomed. His instinct: righteous conservatism in everything except politics. Until two years ago he was a bank cashier in his native Appleton. Minn., a man who displayed his deep-seated ambition by being hardworking, meticulous, self-denying and an ardent Farmer-Laborite. Then Governor Olson made him State Securities Commissioner, later...
...Hendrik DeKruif '38 (H) defeated Cole (UC), 14-16, 15-12, 15-11, 15-9; Richardson (UC) defeated Lawrence Ross '37 (H), 18-17, 17-15, 13-15, 15-13; Richard Cobb '36 (H) defeated Morse (UC), 15-9, 15-7, 14-16, 15-11; Ginsberg (UC) defeated John C. Wood '38 (H), 15-8, 8-15, 18-15, 15-13; Perkins (UC) defeated Carl S. Oakman, Jr. '38 (H), 18-17, 15-12, 18-14; Thomas Sherwin '37 (H) defeated Lopez...
...means rate Rembrandt the greatest Dutchman ever. The Rijksmuseum ordinarily shows its Rembrandts scattered among other 17th Century Dutch masters such as Jan Steen and Frans Hals, in some six rooms. Four years ago a Dutch court methodically turned down the whimsical application of U. S. Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon, collateral descendant of Rembrandt's wife, to have Rembrandt's 262-year-old bankruptcy wiped from the records...