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...Lego company was founded in 1932 by Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund who had a sideline in wooden toys. He named the company after an amalgamation of the Danish phrase "leg godt," which means "play well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lego Celebrates 50 Years of Building | 1/28/2008 | See Source »

Cheese Merchant's Daughter. Christiansen business got its start in Billund during the early 1930s when his father, a carpenter unable to find work in the depressed village, began making wooden toys in his workshop. Naming his enterprise Lego, a contraction for the Danish leg godt (meaning play well), Ole Kirk Christiansen peddled his toys by bicycling about in the surrounding countryside. When Godtfred reached 14 he dropped out of the village school to join his father, after World War II helped swing Lego into the manufacture of plastic toy animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denmark: Toys from Jutland | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...Udklip Du sendte mig passer ikke altsammen. Kirken er kun en Kryslitkirke, saa den er hverken ny eller smuk og Kroen ligger heller ikke lige overfor, men et godt Stykke derfra, men ellers er det rigtigt. Det er en af vore gode Bekendte Praesten som har Kroen, han var gift med en Søster til Murmenster Andersens Kone. Jeg tror nok det har kostet ham en Masse Penge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1933 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

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