Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start Anderson joined the Army. His study of languages finally had a practical result when the Army made him assistant chief of its Scandinavian desk at Washington. Among other things, he had to monitor broadcasts in Reykjavik, Iceland...
...Composing is all right," Anderson states, "but it has one drawback. It's hard to get started, and the composer has to eat in the meantime." This was one reason why, after completing one year of graduate work in music, and getting an A.M., he decided to switch to Scandinavian Languages, intending to become a teacher. During the next four years he tutored music at Radcliffe, played tuba and string bass in Boston-area orchestras, returned to the Band as director and arranger, and, of course, studied. "I even learned Icelandic," he says. It was in this period...
...with one of the lowest VD rates of any nation (Scandinavian countries are lower), loses $100 million a year in industry man-days because...
...reward was a salute to Minnesota Democrats and to millions of women.. It was expected to sit well with the Danes; the new Ambassador had manners, dignity, quiet but expensive clothes and, best of all, a Scandinavian name. It got India Edwards, chief of Democratic women's activities, out of Harry Truman's hair, at least temporarily. And it made Mrs. Anderson happy...
Last week the Digest had not yet figured out how to turn Rose into nine other languages, including the Scandinavian...