Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malley, so many times in the first round that the referee stopped the match. Awarded the only knockout (technical) of the evening, Kolczynski simply shrugged his shoulders. He had knocked out 37 of his 65 previous opponents, had beaten the champions of Norway, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Finland and Eire...
...white-haired President Ignacy Moscicki, Army Dictator Smigly-Rydz and Premier Felician Slawoj Skladkowski. A week after his visit. Hosts Moscicki, Smigly-Rydz and Skladkowski made their little neighbor, Lithuania, knuckle under to their will with an ultimatum (TIME, March 28). By this time Mr. Hoover had journeyed through Finland, Estonia, had missed a luncheon date with Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf because fog delayed his Baltic steamer, and popped in on Copenhagen. From there he continued by plane for England to catch the Normandie...
Therefore, when Cincinnati's thick-lipped Conductor Eugene Goossens last week announced the U. S. premiere of the "finest symphony of the past 15 years," musical cognoscenti lifted their brows. Fine symphonies of the past 15 years have included two by Finland's great bald Jean Sibelius, a half-dozen by such talented Russians as Dmitri Shostakovich, Serge Prokofieff and Tykon Krennikov . Conductor Goossens' entry for the honor was the Symphony in G Minor of reticent, little-known British Composer Ernest John Moeran. Premiered before a stuffy audience in Cincinnati's Music Hall, Moeran...
Herbert Hoover, since he sailed from Manhattan on Feb. 9, has been honored in Europe by the governments of 15 nations: Britain, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland, the Baltic States, Finland and the Scandinavian countries. ''There is more combustible material about than in 1914,'' said he in London last week, "but statesmen are more generally alive to the dangers than in 1914. None of the principal nations will be ready with their war preparations for two or three years. Most statesmen and soldiers recognize that nobody wins in a great modern war. There...
Expressing little faith in so-called cold-immunity," Dr. Finland said that "practically everybody is susceptible to colds in varying degrees," and that immunity from attack is usually of short duration." From there he launched into a detailed analysis of the nature of these diseases, and the symptoms peculiar to each. In every influence, he said, "a physician should be called immediately...