Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashioned sleeve Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company drew a surprise one afternoon last week: a Wagnerian soprano who was neither fat nor 40 but a young woman of grace with a strong clear voice in its prime. The new singer was Kirsten Flagstad, a Norwegian who knows how to milk a cow and ski. As Sieglinde in Die Walkure she made the season's outstanding debut...
...practically unknown to the modern newspaper public is Henry's creator. Artist Carl Anderson, who has been plugging away over a drawing board for more than 40 years, will be 70 next week. Born in Madison, two months before Lincoln was assassinated, he first worked in his Norwegian father's planing mill. Learning the carpenter's trade, Son Carl in his early 20's took to the road, drifted to Omaha, San Francisco, Seattle, where he worked until the 1889 fire nearly erased that pine-built town...
Strategic Finnish railways, for example, run in winter under snow sheds or wood-lined tunnels through the snow, keep punctually on schedule. All winter long the trans-Norwegian Oslo-Bergen Railway speeds on time between Oslo and Bergen, the chief port for England, a run of 320 miles, made twice daily under numerous sheds buried for months beneath from ten to 40 ft. of snow...
...possessions and be capable of original research and independent study. They may concentrate in humanistic, technical, or scientific subjects and must submit definite plans of study. It is desirable that they be college graduates and familiar with at least one language in addition to English, preferably Swedish, Danish, or Norwegian...
...sooner had Italy's Coselschi commenced to orate, as President of the Conference, upon the Universality of Rome than Norwegian Nazi Vidkun Quisling, onetime Defense Minister, jumped up to bark: "Why don't we talk about the Universality of Berlin? Adolf Hitler is just as much an exponent of Fascism as Benito Mussolini...