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Word: scandinavia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clandestinely used to come (while courting Princess Martha) with his hat turned down, his coat turned up, and his eyes masked behind a skier's blue snow-goggles. So successful was this disguise that until the official wedding announcement was made not 50 people in all Scandinavia knew of the romance. Last week, after dancing until well-nigh dawn, Prince Olaf rushed back from Stockholm to Oslo, in order to be there to welcome Princess Martha when she arrived for the wedding with her parents. Prince Karl and Princess Ingeborg, the Duke and Duchess of Vastergotland. Benignly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Royal Wedding | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Haakon, Gustaf & Christian. Visitors to Oslo paid up to 500 kroner ($132). each just for a place at a window from which to see the three Kings of Scandinavia-Norway's Haakon VII, Sweden's Gustaf V and Denmark's Christian X-ride in state from the Slot to Vor Frelsers Kirke, with the bridal party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Royal Wedding | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Queen Victoria Eugenie, who, explained he, was not present, solely because of ill health. Since Queen Victoria of Sweden is nearly always indisposed, the monarchs have that bond in common. They cemented cordial relations, later in the week, by indulging together in the "Royal Sport of Scandinavia," slaying moose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: King to King | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...find out why the National Railways of Mexico have for so long been making so little money. Mexico might have sought her expert in the. U. S. (where most miles of railway are), or in Great Britain (where express trains make longest, fastest non-stop runs), or even in Scandinavia (for Swedes are great railway builders to the minor nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Canadian's Advice | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Throughout Scandinavia moose hunting is esteemed the noblest use of fire arms. Accordingly there is drastic enforcement of laws protecting wild moose out of season. But next winter a determined Parliamentary lobby will urge modification of the game law in the interest of the Swedish Match Co., a gigantic monopoly of such wealth and potency that it occasionally makes governmental loans to the smaller states of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Wild Moose & Death | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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