Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor Government's own making. While the Government had gone on exporting 75,000 tons of British newsprint this year to Australia (whose newspapers run as high as 48 pages), it had choked off almost all Canadian newsprint imports to save $7,-500,000 in Canadian credits. Scandinavian suppliers, quick to take advantage of the shortage created by the Canadian embargo, had boosted prices to Britain in 10 months from ?30 to ?35 a ton. Higher prices alone, warned the Sunday Express' Editor John Gordon, would put "many newspapers in 'Queer Street,' " and probably force...
Even before Peck reached the door, Sunde opened the meeting. Peacemaking by mediation was no longer possible. Sunde set the mood. In measured English, spiced with a heavy Scandinavian accent, he praised "the stamina and courage of American boys who hardly dreamed 14 days ago that they were to be the first to fight for the ideals and principles of the United Nations . . . Let us hope that we shall not fall too far behind these men in our determination and in our dedication...
...Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. 2. Lily Pons and Ferruccio Tagliavini. 3. Eduard Werner and the Detroit Scandinavian Orchestra. 4. Rudolf Bing and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. 5. Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra...
Prospective concentrators in the field, which includes Scandinavian languages and literature, should not enter it with the object of gaining training in linguistics. Comparative Philology is the field for that. German concentrators, after several preliminary language courses such as German A, German C, or German H, will spend most of their time with literature. German 50 is the best introductory literature course for those unsure of their German. Students with confidence in their reading ability can go into German 75. The last course is less interesting than the first because of the material it covers, but it provides an excellent...
...Presbyterians, he said, had not been the only ones mistreated. Wrote he: "The Lutheran Church, which, with the Presbyterians, has the largest United States mission representation in Colombia, is ready to add its expressed protest to the religious persecution being experienced by Protestants under the present regime. The Scandinavian Alliance missionaries have been forced to leave-fleeing to Venezuela. Smaller groups have experienced at least as severe persecution...