Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unity, has been a leader in international religious movements since he helped organize the World's Student Christian Federation in 1895. In World War I he headed the Y.M.C.A.'s canteen and prisoner-of-war work. Last week, in retirement at Orlando, Fla., he was "mildly astonished." Scandinavia's left-wing newspapers were not only astonished but angry: they had hoped the prize would go to Madame Alexandra Kollontay, 74, ex-Soviet Ambassador to Stockholm, who helped arrange the 1944 peace between Russia and Finland...
John Steinbeck, on a junket to Scandinavia, got a hero's welcome. Reporters and cameramen woke him at 4 a.m. the morning after his arrival in Sweden; reporters stuck with him on the seven-hour-ride by train and ferry to Copenhagen; more boarded the train at every stop. Cried one Copenhagen paper: "John...
...raid shelters and clearing ground for new buildings among the debris left by five years of German bombing. In France, still desperately short of manpower, 700,000 German prisoners are rented out by the Government (at a charge of approximately $1 a day) to private employers. In Belgium, Holland, Scandinavia and the Balkans another 100,000-odd P.W.s are at work...
...Scandinavia's foreign-bound students planned to come to the U.S. (550 of them this fall). Before the war, 50% went to Germany...
...that it was erected as a windmill by a Rhode Island colonial governor. Following Philip Ainsworth Means and others, and citing copious structural details, Holand concludes that the windmill theory is unsound-that the building was originally a "round, fortified stone church" of a type common in medieval Scandinavia. The builders: obviously, Knutson's party...