Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again last week the ready sympathy of highly placed Norwegians for wronged women was proved at Oslo. By special act of the Storting (Parliament) a sum of money "sufficient to assist Fru Amanda Anderson in her present difficulties" was placed at her disposal by the Statskassen (Treasury...
News of this deed flashed to the capital of Norway, "Beautiful Oslo." fired members of the Royal Automobile Club with a great resolve. In a manifesto soon signed by aristocratic clubbers they proposed "that in every city of the Kingdom of Norway the use of the horn shall be done away with, so that the attention it involves on the part of the automobilist may be redirected to skilful driving...
Roswell Magill, professor of Law at Columbia, will be visiting professor of Law at the Harvard Law School for the first half of 1930-31. Phillip de Vargas, professor of History in Yenching University, Peking, will be lecturer on Chinese. Halvdan Koht, professor in the University of Oslo, Norway, has been appointed lecturer in History. He will give two courses in the first half year, one on the social and political history of Scandinavia, the other on "Evolutionary Forces in History...
...interview last night at the Lenox Hotel, Sonja Henie, 17-year-old girl skater from Oslo, Norway, who has won the world's singles title for women four successive times, and who is to appear at the Arena tonight, said she began to practice skating when only seven years old, first on roller skates, and then on the ice. She captured her first championship for fancy skating in 1924 at the age of eleven. Her father, who won the world's bicycle championship in Antwerp in 1893, then took her to Chamonix in France, where she had her first opportunity...
...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, the most profitable in Oslo. As a boy he liked to ride bicycles, and won the world's amateur championship at Antwerp in 1893. Pleased that his little girl had inherited a snub nose from her Irish grandmother, he taught her to skate when she was seven...