Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Skiing was a sport for fools or experts. There evidently was no way in which a man in the first category could progress to the second. A few of us kept persistently at it, but learning came slowly. The few skiing manuals on hand were written in French of Norwegian and the latter technique is next to impossible to master without personal instruction...
...King of Norway listened intently, likewise the Crown Prince and members of the Norwegian Academy of Science, to a report made fortnight ago by bright young Dr. Ottar Rygh. Dr. Rygh had learned how to store the mother stuff of Vitamin C, anti-scurvy. Because the process is important, U. S. nutritionists were impatient for his complete paper to reach this country. Significant quotations available last week: "It seems simple enough now. My task was to find a method by which Vitamin C could be produced in the laboratory in such form that it could be kept in storage without...
First of the sixteen foreign teams ? to arrive in the U. S. were the Norwegian skiers, who won the championship in 1924 and 1928. Sigmund Rudd, whose 265-ft. jump three years ago is the world's record, was one of the 18 members of the team, as was Johann Grottumsbraaten, clothes dealer of Oslo, a slight, baldheaded man of 32, whom most Norwegians consider the greatest skier in the world. The Swedes brought a woman to cook their food, a crack team for the 50-kilometer ski-race...
...trip he started last week is a three-month world cruise arranged by Raymond-Whitcomb aboard the Norwegian Stella Polaris. Four dozen other Americans will be in the party. The ship, as it lay moored to a Brooklyn dock last week, contained 5,000 bottles of spirits, kegs of beer piled deck high, 55,000 bottles of vintage wine...
...manuscript consists of two volumes neatly written in ink, two columns to a page, and bound in old calf. The last part of the second volume contains the translation of certain poems of a Norwegian poet, Christian Tullein, and also of the German poet Gellert. Several of Thorlakason's own poems are included...