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...Finland (5th semi-annual installment of interest...
...bear arms for fixed periods in each year, diminishing as time goes on. Under this system, all hale male nationals are liable to do military service between certain ages, usually between 19 and 48. The six countries which have adopted this system: Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Denmark and Finland (only a semi-militia system). The respective terms of military service for the first years are: 65 days, 48 days, 150 days, 160 days, 150 days, one year (owing to Finland's fear of Russia...
...uneasily and pretended to be asleep. Great Britain, whose debt made up more than a third of the whole, was the first to awake. She gave bonds covering her debt, arranged its payment over a period of 60 years and began to pay. Four smaller debtors followed suit: Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Hungary. The others were slower...
...Other nations: Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Hungary...
...days later. Nurmi eluded a group of giggling women who desired to osculate his drawn cheek, waved farewell to a swarming pier-load of yelling Finnish-Americans, had his last pictures taken by U. S. cameramen, departed for Finland. On the same day, in answer to those scandal mongers who have averred that he padded his expense account, a list of his expenditures was published. He, who had been offered a professional contract of $3,000 a week, $60,000 by advertisers who wanted his endorsement, lived for six months...