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...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...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 3/29/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friends Offer Social Service Work Abroad | 3/18/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 70 Against the World | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...last eight years, W.S.S.F. has distributed to needy students abroad over one-million dollars worth of food, books and clothing and haw moved it through relief committees in Finland, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, and France to name only...

Author: By Wilmer J. Kitchen and Executive Secretary, S | Title: Latest Reports Show Student Plight Abroad W.S.S.F. Pledges Distribution Aid to University Food Group | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

While the Allied representatives, led by Russia, put their names to the Italian peace treaty, Soragna waited. Then, pale but deliberate, he stepped to the big table* in the nearby Galeria de la Paix, and signed for Italy. After his departure, the representatives of Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Unsettled Weather | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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