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...Ahlmann has been collecting evidence from a variety of sources: temperature records, glaciers, trees, fish. In the Scandinavian countries, he says, the winters have been getting milder since the 19th Century. The change for the better amounts to only a degree or two, but that is enough to make all the difference in countries that fringe the Arctic...
...were a Scandinavian . . ." he writes. "I would begin to believe that now, if ever, is the time for the Great Scandiuavian Renaissance that in its dynamic power will give hope to the whole of Europe...
Under the regime of Mueller's gentle efficiency. Schoenhof's has become one of the two big distributors of new foreign literature in this country, as well as a small-scale publisher of German books by immigrant authors. Besides dealing in such standard items as Russian-German dictionaries and Scandinavian children's books, Mueller indulges one of his great loves by selling fine art prints on the side. The Renoirs and Pienssos add a supreme touch of individuality to the paper-covered French novels in the disorded front windows. But, evidently, love for European culture may conceivably...
...Arctic America has two species of lemming, similar to the Scandinavian but not so addicted to mass suicide by drowning, because their travel is mainly overland...
Most interesting and starting of the articles is a factual report by two Scandinavian student visitors to Budapest, of conditions among those trying to get a college education. Leaving out graphs and generalizations, the report has passages such as, "The students often live 10-16 together in a room, with broken windows, no heat, poor light. In one college we saw a girl student lying ill with fever in a dank room where the temperature was only 2 degrees...