Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road mender. Then he became a trade union organizer. When the Germans landed in Norway and ousted him as mayor of Oslo, he went back to mending roads, clad in overalls. At night, after his road work, he organized the labor union section of the Norwegian underground. Later he spent several years in Nazi prisons...
Evelyn Waugh, grand old man of Britain's bright young men, reported back (in This Week magazine) after a look at Scandinavia. He found the Danes "the most exhilarating people in Europe. . . ." On the Swedes: "They believe very firmly in their own sanity." The sight of Norwegian statuary bearing no evidence of "any intellectual process or spiritual aspirations" moved him to wonder "what hope there was for the people who had made...
Getting more specific, the new journal concludes that "Norwegian moccasins is the latest report from Harvard," and "At Harvard they wear brilliant Argyle socks, or the plain color ribs." Button-down shirts and gray flannels get the expected not also as part of the typical Cambridge costume...
...world. In 1919, Norway's Vilhelm Bjerknes and his son Jakob (now head of the Department of Meteorology at U.C.L.A.) hoisted forecasting into a third dimension and a new perspective with their analyses of air masses. U.S. airlines and other private concerns were quick to adopt the Norwegian techniques, but the Weather Bureau didn't get around to using them for more than a decade...
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