Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world of which most U. S. readers feel themselves citizens, a country inhabited not by brain-fevered intellectuals but by human beings whose hearts are troubled. Klaus Hallem turned out to be a country doctor while his old classmate George Roiter was becoming one of the biggest men in Oslo, head of the university, famed throughout Europe as a humane expert on international law. Since schooldays they had been friends and rivals. Hallem was self-centered, disagreeable, fiercely envious; Roiter brilliant, unselfish, easily preeminent. Twice Roiter had saved Hallem's life-once when he was publicly denounced for plagiarizing...
...Sonja Henie, of Norway, world's champion woman figure skater: a title contest before the Norwegian royal family in which the U. S. champion, graceful Maribel Vinson of Boston, fell during a spin, landed in fifth place; at Oslo...
Ousted from Berlin was Chief Commercial Attaché H. Lawrence Groves, 15 years in the service, and Trade Commissioner William T. Daugherty. That left the Berlin bureau halved. The London office was reduced from eleven to two. Offices at Belgrade, Berne, Bucharest, Budapest, Helsingfors, Lisbon, Oslo, Riga were abandoned entirely. Thirteen others were closed throughout the world...
...wings nearly forcing him into the sea. He lost his course, missed England & Scotland completely, discovered himself over the coast of Norway which he was not prepared to navigate. With fuel running low, he picked out a landing spot in an island -Jomfruland-70 mi. southwest of Oslo. There he lost 18 precious hours before getting gasoline from the mainland. Off again, he paused for a brief moment at Oslo, then tore across the Baltic 1,100 mi. to Moscow where he landed three hours ahead of Post & Gatty's time...
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was born into a carefully wealthy, sternly cultured family of Oslo, who insisted on his being a good student. With a scientific and mathematical bent. Fridtjof chose zoology as his specialty. That and his love of adventure led him into the Arctic. At 21 he made his first voyage, with the sealer Viking. Six years later he led an expedition across Greenland on skis. When he proposed to his wife he added a condition: "But I must take a trip to the North Pole." In the From, specially constructed to resist ice pressure...