Word: axel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of thefestivities, King Christian had to be told that an electric iron leftswitched on overnight had set fire to the Bernstorffshöj 'Castle in Denmark of his first cousin, Prince Axel, burning it to the ground...
...almost always developed a stitch during the final mile of a race due to a torn muscle suffered while running during his public school days in England. So far this season, however, he has been able to complete the course without undue abdominal discomfort. Also subject to stitches is Axel Northrop, captain of last year's Freshmen. Developing one early in the Holy Cross meet, it forced him far down in the finishing order. Should he out-grow this affliction, as apparently did Hayden, however, Axel will go down to Princeton one of the Crimson mainstays...
Dark horse of the race is Jack Love joy, a Junior who started his cross country career this fall and has been showing up well in practice. The red hair of six-foot-three Axel Northrop, yearling captain last year, should also be seen among the leaders...
...Axel Anderson, fireman, had almost won the hand of Rita Coates, teacher, when the Lynn. Mass, school committee intervened last month to say that Miss Coates could not have both her job and Axel. "This condemns me to the life of a spinster," mourned Rita Coates. "I have no choice unless I wish to desert my father and mother who are absolutely dependent...
...Sweden's Bjornsterne Bjornson" ever received the Nobel Prize for Literature as stated in footnote on p. 40, TIME, Nov. 19. Alfred Nobel's Sweden has to be satisfied with Literature Prize Winners Selma Lagerloöf (1909), Verner von Heidenstam (1916) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt...