Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world where there are already established observatories; too frequently eclipses take place in inaccessible places, where astronomical equipment has to be taken at great cost which may be entirely in vain if the day is cloudy. The next four total eclipses, for example, will take place in Sumatra, in Scandinavia, in Malacca, in Patagonia. But in this case, the observatories of Toronto, Cornell, Vassar, Yale and Wesleyan Universities will be in the path of the total eclipse while several others, such as the Yerkes and the Harvard observatories, will be in the region of partial but not of complete eclipse...
Fact also is, that in Scandinavia and in Germany it is common custom to administer fatal doses of morphine when two or more physicians agree that a case attended with extreme suffering is incurable. But a bill to legalize this practice failed in Germany three years...
...flame to be hanged. She escapes to America. An index of the whole picture is the final scene when the lord, now in prison, is married in his cell to his betrothed, filling it almost entirely with her bridal attire. Victor Seastrom has directed with the taut technique of Scandinavia. The Stranger. Hope for the cinema lies in a photoplay like this adaptation of John Galsworthy's story, The First and the Last. It is a sensitive and sensible study of the regeneration wrought in each other by two London outcasts, with only a single quotation from holy writ...
Having delved into the dramatic literature of Russia, Ireland, Scandinavia, South America, and France, nothing is more natural than that the Dramatic Club should turn toward Italy. The somewhat austere interior of Brattle Hall will be transformed for a few hours this evening into a bit of old Venice, when Carlo Goldini's comedy "The Liar", is produced in its first American revival...
...first known white-faced visitor to come to this continent, Leif Ericson, being converted to Christianity, was so eager to carry the gospel to others that he brought a priest back with him from Scandinavia to Greenland, whence he himself went forth later in search of further shores. Nearly a thousand years later there has come to America a primate among Scandinavian priests, Dr. Nathan Soederblom, the distinguished head of the Church in Sweden and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Upsala...