Word: finn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after 600 years of being passed around among Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Russia, they now belong to Finland. They were heavily fortified by the Russian Tsars and in the closing years of the War they became the object of a free-for-all among the Bolsheviks, the Red & White Finns, the Swedes and the Germans. The Islanders themselves howled for Sweden. The White Finns won and Sweden nearly went to war about it. The League of Nations intervened and gave the islands to Finland. Then, worse than now, King Gustaf had Communist nightmares. He feared that Finland might turn...
...lunch of sugar, Every mile or so he takes a pill form his little bottle and stokes himself. His bodily machine going under forced oxygen draft with an almost diabetic supply of fuel, he returns to the Athens of America only a few minutes behind the non-Biochemical Finn, Komonen...
...seven times, waved to his friends at South Framingham. At Natick, a New York runner named William Steiner, who stepped along like a sprinter, was 200 yd. ahead. Up the long slope toward Wellesley College, Steiner slowed down and John Kelley of Arlington, Mass, and a pale, unhappy-looking Finn named Dave Komonen soon caught him. From the sidewalks, Wellesley girls waved to the runners who pass through their town in underclothes once every year-Leslie Pawson, last year's winner; cheerful Jimmy Henigan, winner in 1931; Paul De Bruyn, the furnace-man who trained for his victory...
Huckleberry Finn (1884) Mark Twain...
There was no evidence that Father Lugena had mistreated his boy. But it was only natural that he should feel some sympathy with another, more famed Hannibal parent, "Pap" Finn, to whom it seemed downright unreasonable that Huckleberry should be sent to school, sleep in a bed and nightshirt like a "sweet-scented dandy" instead of cooking for "Pap" and running his errands. Nevertheless, ruled the National Compliance Board: "Child labor will not be tolerated regardless of relationship...