Alost
Americannoun
noun
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Tough All Over Premier Joseph Stalin could ponder the news that the city fathers of Alost, Belgium had changed the postliberation name of Stalin Avenue back to the original, St. Anna.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Town Hall: Alost Thierry Moertens, who was a renowned master printer of the Netherlands, was born here, and is said to have established in Alost the "very first printing house in Flanders."
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton
As an instance of what the armored car accomplishes, it is recited that when the German troops sought to invade the Belgian town of Alost a detachment was sent through the streets in armored cars.
From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly
Battles were fought at Alost and Termonde in which the Germans were, for the time, repulsed, but their ever-increasing reinforcements enabled them to advance despite the efforts of the Belgians to check them.
From World's War Events, Vol. I by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
Our ambulance car is to go to Alost at once.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May
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