Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Copenhagen, Denmark's King Frederik, who is proud of his muscular, tattooed torso and sailing skill, displayed his talent with the baton. At a private concert for family, friends and diplomats, he conducted the Royal Danish Symphony Orchestra through Mozart's Symphony in G Minor (No. 40) and Weber's overture to Euryanthe. Among those who listened and applauded: famed British Conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent...
...From the Danish newspaper Information: "The general feeling prevailing in Tunis is that France is not yet ripe for self-government...
...tradition carried on by two other sons, Artist Bancel LaFarge and Architect Christopher Grant LaFarge. Two grandsons: Author Christopher LaFarge (Laughing Boy), Author and Indian Expert Oliver LaFarge. *French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Danish, Dutch and Esperanto...
...dense fog hung low as the Isbrandtsen Company's 6,711-ton freighter Flying Enterprise moved away from her pier in Hamburg; her Danish-born master, Henrik Kurt Carlsen, 37, was obliged to conn her down the harbor by radar. There was nasty weather outside, and she creaked and complained as she rolled down past Dover and through the English Channel, heavy with a cargo of coffee beans, antique furniture, automobiles, U.S. mail and Rotterdam pig iron...
There was nothing wrong with the Schafer method as far as it went. But a Danish instructor in physical fitness, Holger Nielsen, argued that its rhythmic pressure on the lower ribs of the back caused the lungs to take up only the same amount of air as a person inhales in normal breathing. Nielsen reasoned that if the victim's lungs could be made to take a deep breath, like a man inflating his chest before an open window, there would be a better chance of expelling water or gases from the lungs. Nielsen developed a method...