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Usage examples of amsterdam.

John Locke, from whom Adams, Jefferson, and other American patriots drew inspiration, had published some of his earliest works while a political refugee in Amsterdam.

Thus, as Adams wrote, the true power lay in the cities and in Amsterdam in particular.

Such was the turmoil of Amsterdam that Adams now found it impossible even to arrange meetings.

Through February and March, despite the weather, Adams kept on the move, traveling back and forth between Amsterdam, Leyden, and The Hague, conferring with as many of his Dutch friends and contacts as possible.

In distress, he turned to Adams, who arranged a loan with banks in Amsterdam, as Adams had on occasion for his own expenses.

IN THE FINAL DAYS of May 1786, John Adams was called on to hurry to Amsterdam once again, to secure still another desperately needed Dutch loan for the United States.

It attracted the wealthy men who made Ahmadabad work, just as the Damplatz did in Amsterdam.

It is much changed, but the Amsterdammer still believes that those who live there do no work and never have their hair cut, and amusing things still happen there.

Here an Amsterdammer, it seemed, was an Indian from the Peruvian uplands, plus blanket and llama.

For instance, if that gunboat, with its purple-whiskered Amsterdammer of a captain, should just now happen in.

To a real Amsterdammer, Holland consisted of two parts: Amsterdam and the provinces.

Regarding the Amsterdam sections in this book, I owe these three Amsterdammers incalculable thanks.

Local police had disappeared, Dutch investigators from Amsterdam had disappeared, but when American assistance personnel disappeared, America told the Antillean government that the United States would take care of it in another way.

After the United States entered the war, Bedaux gave the Germans valuable information from the files of his international company at Amsterdam.

The weapons are sealed in containers, of course, and if the Amsterdam customs are unaware of this they must be the worst, the blindest, or the most corrupt and avaricious in Europe.