Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tramp, tramp-the thick-soled, high-button shoes of Norwegian Deputies carried them into the Nobel Institute last week. Some of them wept large, mild Norwegian tears last year when Premier Mowinckel announced that Norway accepted the sentence of the World Court which took from her East Greenland, gave it to Denmark (TIME, April 17, 1933). For this act of Christian resignation, most Norwegians think, Premier Mowinckel ought to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead last week Johan Ludwig Mowinckel was charged with the chore of presenting the 1934 Peace Prize to a Briton who has done his best...
Sixth child of a family of twelve, Thorstein Veblen was born on a Wisconsin farm to parents who had migrated from Norway. Brought up in a clannish Norwegian community, Veblen spoke no English until he went to Carleton College at Northfield, Minn. There he quickly picked up proficiency in English, became so nice in his choice of words that he finally decided there were no synonyms in the language. After graduating high from Carleton, Veblen taught for a year in a Norwegian-community school, then went East to study philosophy at Johns Hopkins and Yale, take...
There also was a Norwegian sailor named Nuggerud. No nature lover, he earned a frugal living fishing off the Galapagos and sailing his odorous cargoes back to the mainland...
...cruising offshore, reported by wireless that he had dined with the Wittmers only the week before, that the second body could not be Mrs. Wittmer's. Soundest theory seemed to be that Rudolph Lorenz (who may or may not have murdered the baroness) was picked up by the Norwegian fisherman Nuggerud for the trip to San Cristobal Island where Lorenz could take schooner passage to the mainland; that Lorenz was taking with him some letters Mrs. Wittmer wanted posted and some of her baby's clothes as size samples for the purchase of more on the mainland. Nuggerud...
...ponies were killed to feed men and dogs. Phenomenally good weather was soon followed by blizzards. Deep snow held the party in a soft vise. On Dec. 14 Scott wrote, "We are just starting our march with no very hopeful outlook." That same day the famed Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, traveling fast by a different route, became the first man to reach the South Pole...