Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the institute invited three more famous names to join its lighthouse of civilization. The three: Denmark's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Niels D. Bohr (who has been there once before), British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee (who presumably will work on the last volumes of A Study of History) and Poet T. S. Eliot (St. Louis-born, but a British subject since 1927). The institute didn't ask them what they would do; it was satisfied to let grown-up minds continue growing...
...Denmark...
Cousins (both are great-grandchildren of Denmark's King Christian IX), they had met in London at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Since then, for 28 days they had dallied in London and Lausanne under the sympathetic eye of Michael's Mama, Queen Helen, while Michael shyly pursued his quest. At 24, Nan, as her family calls her, is a gay, humorous girl who dislikes big social functions, wears flat heels, likes to mimic people. During the war's early years she had studied commercial art in New York, where her mother, Princess Margrethe...
Knowledge of the language of each country is the main requisite. Countries included in the plan are France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, England, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden...
...General Dwight D. Eisenhower from King Frederik of Denmark went a bejeweled medal, the country's highest decoration, seldom given to anyone but princes: the Order of the Knight of the Elephant; from Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, a bejeweled, gold-sheathed sword whose blade bore the engraved leg end: ". . . in grateful memory of the glorious liberation...