Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Comparatively obscure Pacifist-Lecturer Sir Norman Angell, recipient of the 1933 Peace Prize last week, announced that he was "too busy"to come to Oslo for his $44,338, had it accepted for him by the British Minister to the Kingdom of Nor way, trusty Cecil F. J. Dormer. Nobel prizes other than Peace are awarded in Stockholm. Last week on the same day that Norway's Crown Prince Olaf watched Premier Mowinckel award Mr. Henderson in Oslo, King Gustaf V of Sweden awarded the other Nobel winners: Literature, scrubby-bearded Italian Dramatist Luigi Pirandello (TIME, Nov. 19); Medicine...
Norway's devout. Democratic King Haakon VII received in audience Rev. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, who had taken his Oxford Groups to Oslo for a House Party...
Hardly a day passes throughout the year that four or five large passenger liners do not arrive in New York from Southampton, Le Havre, Hamburg, Genoa, Buenos Aires, Bremen. Glasgow, Cherbourg, Villefranche, Oslo, Valparaiso, Havana. And hardly a day passes that these ships do not set down on the Manhattan docks a score or more of passengers whose opinions on gold, Hitler, husbands, Russian food, literature, Disarmament, legs, do not make news of a kind. But at no time during the year is such news so plentiful as during the first ten days of September. Then ocean travel...
...Jack Torrance. Louisiana State's 275-Ib. weight-thrower, with a Brobdingnagian heave of 57 ft., 5 in. that broke all previous world's records, official or otherwise: the 16-lb. shot-put in an international track meet at Oslo, Norway...