Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sonja Henie is a well made, light-haired girl with a good-natured, intelligent face and muscular legs. She is 17 and has been figure-skating champion of the world for the last three years. She has won the Olympic title once and the Norwegian six times. Her father, William Henie, runs a trade in women's wear that has been in the Henie family for 100 years. His store on the Prinsens-Gade, with its flag over the door and the costly sheen of the fur coats behind the thick plateglass, is one of the most expensive...
...hard for a short man to uppercut a tall man's jaw, but Paulino Uzcudun found how to do it. He would swing a left into the ribs of Otto Von Porat, lantern-jawed Norwegian, and as Von Porat's head came down it would meet a right hand whisking up. Bettors who had figured that the Norwegian had two chances of landing the best punches for every chance squat Uzcudun had of staying away from them, cheered when, in the first round, Uzcudun spread his legs to keep from falling. After that Uzcudun kept his chin...
...knew Arctic flying better than any other man.* When the U. S. Army flyers made the first air penetration of Alaska (1920)†, he was teaching at Fairbanks High School. Norwegian-blooded, born in North Dakota, school work irked him. He became a flyer...