Word: finland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belatedly as Westerners may like to think. Before World War I only four countries (Australia, Finland, New Zealand, Norway) allowed women's suffrage. The U.S. granted women full suffrage in 1920, Britain not until 1928, France and Italy not until the end of World...
...California's Cy Young, who spoiled Finland's hopes in the javelin with a throw of 242 ft. 0.79 in., breaking (by 5 ft. 6.04 in.) a 20-year-old Olympic record for the first U.S. javelin victory in Olympic history. Second: Bill Miller of the U.S. Marines...
Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, he circled the 400-meter track, with an easy, familiar stride. From the spectators came a delighted roar of applause for one of the most unforgettable of all Olympians: Finland's Paavo Nurmi, now 55, and in his Olympic days (1920-28) the greatest distance runner in the world. Stopping at the base of the giant urn, Nurmi stretched high to set it ablaze with fire relayed across Europe from Olympia. The 1952 Olympics had begun...
...Finland braced itself this week for an invasion. Planes and ships, loaded to capacity, were already disembarking the advance guard of an expected 40,000 foreign visitors to the Olympic Games at Finland's capital. Helsinki's main boulevard, the Mannerheimintie, was lined with store windows displaying the five-colored Olympic rings. In the 10 local newspapers, news of the imminent games almost crowded out the G.O.P. convention in Chicago and the war in Korea. Some householders were demanding, and getting, sky-high prices for bed & board. Helsinki's restaurants hurriedly recruited an extra 2,500 helpers...
...series of children's concerts for a while, he resolved to try Europe. In Paris, after his debut in a radio concert, the guest-conducting offers began to flock in. Last season he led 32 concerts, and he has conducted in nine countries, from Israel to Finland. Next season he will be a resident conductor of the Goteborg (Sweden) Symphony...