Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mile Run. From Stockholm Stadium, Sweden, came the report that Paavo Nurmi, a Finn, had " broken the world's record for the mile run." The mile record-with the possible exception of the 100-yard record-is looked upon as the most important record in track competition. Yet Nurmi's feat (though it was in no wise questioned) evoked little or no press comment; no American sporting editor proved energetic enough to cable for further details. The Finn's time was given as 4 min. 102/5 sec. He also "broke the world's record...
Baptist Muzhiks. Dr. Edgar Mullins, of Louisville, Ky., arrived in the U. S. last week from Stockholm, where he was elected President of the World Baptist Alliance. (Tins, July 30, Aug. 6.) The Baptist type of church polity appeals to the Russian mind, in its present extremely democratic state, for each and every Baptist Church is free and independent, and all higher ecclesiastical organization is the voluntary work of churches which wish to cooperate without being subject to ecclesiastical domination. In 1914, when the Greek Orthodox Church was the State Church of the Tzars, there were only 100,000 Baptists...
...American bowling team, wandering far from home in search of honor, was defeated by a Swedish team in Stockholm. The Americans thus lost the American Bowling Union Trophy, a $500 cup, which they had taken abroad with them to be placed in international competition as a perpetual challenge trophy...
...news of the Government's resignation is taken at Stockholm as an indication of a general reaction against the socialists, who were in power through the Branting administration...
...dinner was given on March 2 to the retiring American Minister, Mr. Ira Nelson Morris, and Mrs. Morris. Dr. Svente Arrhenius, President of the Nobel Institute, presiding over the banquet, expressed Sweden's grati- tude to " the most popular Minister who ever visited Stockholm...