Word: gotland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studies over the past twenty-five years have focused largely on stone sculpture and religious works of art found in the island county Gotland in south-eastern Sweden, which archaeologists belive has been one of mankind's most active population centers since the Stone Age. At the conclusion of his lecture series, Dr. Roosval will conduct a special study group for a small number of graduate students in the fine arts...
...international judges rated sleek-legged Miss Vinson fifth for the world championship largely because she skidded and fell. They gave fourth place to a Swedish girl and first place as usual to Norway's superb Sonja Henie. Able Lawyer Steinhardt had already stepped aboard a steamer bound for Gotland, Sweden's "Island of Roses and Ruins," when Idrottsbladet' story was shown to him. He claimed to have been utterly misquoted: "In my speech I praised the punctuality, accuracy and knowledge of the rules possessed by Swedish officials, advising our athletes to comply strictly with the rules...