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
Renoux saw them coming, understood, turned and hurried southward to warn Alost and Souchez.
From The Moonlit Way by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
They had flown as far as Ninove and Alost, but found the country there clear.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
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
In the year just named—1473—Nycolaum Ketelaer and Gerard de Leempt produced Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica at Utrecht, and Alost and Louvain also started printing.
From The Story of Books by Rawlings, Gertrude Burford
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