Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Nils Eie of Oslo, Norway, took first in jumping with 36.76 points, Dartmouth captured team honors in that event to keep a clean slate. Because of the exceptionally fast surface on the runway, the jumpers took off from a rope stretched across the chute 50 feet below the platform, and jumps were consequently shorter than if the full length of the take-off had been utilized...
...streets of her native Oslo, Sonja Henie causes almost as much of a stir as King Haakon. In the U. S., where she has been developed into a Hollywood cinemactress in the two years since she abdicated her amateur standing as figure-skating champion of the world, Sonja Henie's popularity is fast becoming comparable to that of Mary Pickford when she was America's Sweetheart...
...Prime Minister of Norway, the Norwegian Minister and his wife. They were lunching with the President. . . ." Mrs. Roosevelt would have had a long wet drive had she indeed gone to see the Prime Minister of Norway, Johan Nygaardsvold, for he was last week attending to his business in Oslo. The gentleman with whom Mrs. Roosevelt chatted was Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Halvdan Koht, who is visiting the U. S. to confer with Secretary of State Cordell Hull about a new trade treaty with his fatherland, and to give a series of lectures at Harvard and Columbia...
Halvdan Koht, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Norway and professor of History in the University of Oslo, will give a free, public lecture on "The Social Development and Policies of Norway" on Tuesday, November, 2, at 8 o'clock in Emerson...
...prestige of that victory helped win for Premier van Zeeland unofficial command of the expanded Oslo Group of nations (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg, Switzerland) and three months ago he went to the U. S. to present to President Roosevelt the ideas of these countries, who have agreed to be neutral in any coming European war (TIME, June 14, July 5). Returning with still added prestige, Paul van Zeeland seemed ready to compete with Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes for the title of "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...