Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kingdom of Denmark these days, the beer bottles must have square labels, because the Government decided that oval ones waste too much paper. In Providence, R. I., stonecutters have refused to cut names into tombstones shipped ready-shaped from Sweden and Finland. And in Britain last week, Food Minister John Strachey told a truly shocked House of Commons that the tea ration might have to be cut, partly because India and Ceylon did not like Government-regulated tea buying...
...check of the 1920 Antwerp Olympic results revealed that little Finland (coached by Mikkola and boasting a population equal to that of Massachusetts) had helped itself to second place in the 44-nation track and field championships...
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...projects taking students overseas are on a volunteer basis. One group will travel to Mexico to assist public health and recreation agencies there, while other groups will cross the Atlantic to aid in rehabilitation in Finland, Italy, and France, a job undertaken by the Quakers after the last war as well as today...
Between meetings, such world-famed architects as Harvard's functionalist Walter Gropius, Finland's elfin Alvar Aalto, California's machine-minded Richard Neutra, and Brazil's hot-eyed Marcelo Roberto invaded the bar of the mock-colonial Princeton Inn to swap anecdotes about their worst frustrations and snapshots of their favorite jobs. Princeton itself came in for some sly digs. Philadelphia's George Howe, with an eye to the architecturally mixed but mainly neo-Gothic campus, observed that "collegiate Gothic and collegiate Georgian buildings are neither Gothic nor Georgian nor collegiate, but charnel houses...