Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captain of the Vidar, on reaching Stockholm, reported that his ship had been "struck by something under water with an awful shock"; and experts representing the Admiralty were at once despatched to examine the Vidar's slightly damaged hull. They reported that "every circumstance connected with the affair seems to point to a collision between the Vidar and the M-1 when the latter was on the point of rising to the surface...
...From Stockholm the following sentence flashed along the cables of the world: "The Board of Directors of the Nobel Fund announces that, for the first time since the initial awards 24 years ago, all five of the annual Nobel Prizes will be withheld for the current year...
...family labored incessantly at the invention and manufacture of super-combustibles. So numerous were the explosions and fires which wrecked their laboratories that the Swedish Government forbade them at one time to experiment on Swedish soil. Undaunted, they anchored a laboratory-barge in the middle of Lake Malaren, near Stockholm, and continued their death-pregnant experiments...
Fifteen years ago Thorpe was in his prime. In 1911 and 1912, playing with Carlisle, he won a place on Walter Camp's All-American elevens. The next summer on the U. S. Olympic team at Stockholm, he won the all-around track and field championship, but his medals were taken away from him when some snoop found out that he had played in a professional baseball game. He signed with the New York Giants, but soon showed that he was not good enough for big league baseball. Though speedy in the field and on the bases, he could...
...announcement comes from Stockholm that a new play by Prince William is shortly to be put into rehearsal by the Swedish National Theatre. This time the Prince has essayed a drama dealing with life at sea, has entitled it On Board, and drawn for background upon the events surrounding the several active commands which he has held in the Swedish Navy. Considering the passion for seafaring which animates so many Scandinavians, the Prince's latest choice of subject matter is considered as well advised, if not so sensational, as his negroid theme of two years...