Word: finnish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since cocky little Finland has not the slightest fear of Japan but hates and fears Japan's No. 1 enemy Russia, Finnish Army officers prepared to give Captain Nishimura every scrap of secret information on how to keep troops and war gear efficiently in action at temperatures down...
Today the palace where the Constitutions were declared is a moldering, overgrown ruin on private land near Salisbury. Dr. Tancred Borenius of London's University College, eminent Finnish-born scholar, diplomat and dendrologist, has been cutting away the ash trees, clearing out wagonloads of earth. Laid bare were parts of the great hall, two enormous kitchens, some state apartments, eating and drinking vessels from which irascible King Henry and his court feasted...
...world's great composers and respect him all the more for his quiet independent ways. Few great musicians have refused to advertise themselves, to bask in the hot spotlight of the world's leading music capitals. But Sibelius, who was born of Finnish farming stock, nursed on Finnish folksongs, has remained resolutely Finnish to this day. In his course of study he spent a year in Berlin, two years in Vienna. The impressions soon faded. At 27 he was back in Helsingfors teaching violin and theory at the local conservatory. Five years later the Finnish Government subsidized...
...Finnish High Court last week passed sentence upon the spy ring of 28 men and women it had been trying behind locked doors for nine weeks (TIME, April 9). To a 27-year-old graduate of the University of Michigan and onetime school teacher in a Detroit suburb, Arvid Werner Jacobsen, the judges gave a sentence of five years at hard labor. In Michigan his wife Sally said: "Arvid took a university fellowship in Finland and then found out he was expected to give dangerous information." The Finnish police charged that Arvid had been the ring's paymaster...
...Mamaroneck, N. Y., at a conference of the United Lutheran Synod of which he is president, Rev. Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler urged formation of a Lutheran "Church of All Nations" in New York. Services would be held in English and 15 other tongues spoken by Lutherans-German, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Ukrainian, Spanish. Hungarian, Slovak, Wendish, Italian, Polish, Latvian, Estonian and French...