Word: sven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last August Vincent Bendix, industrialist son of a Methodist minister, who starts and stops most of the world's automobiles (Bendix Drive, Mechanical Four-Wheel Brakes), gave to Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin $135,000 with which to proceed to China, draw plans of two ancient Lama temples and buy their trappings. Last week Mr. Bendix was thanked by King Gustaf of Sweden for one of these temples which he had given to Stockholm. It will cost some $65,000, will be erected by Explorer Hedin, who will assemble the other one, also at Bendix expense, in Chicago. Purpose...
...Sven Rosseland, professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Oslo, comes to Harvard to lecture throughout this year and to work in the Harvard Observatory. He will give a course in cosmic physics, and will lecture before the course in Descriptive Astronomy. Although only 33 years of age, he is renowned as an accomplished mathematician and an outstanding astrophysicist...
...secrets of the Turkish harems, permitted herself a social slur: "The better class of Turks never practiced polygamy and men who had harems were socially in disfavor, despite the fact that the Sultans always had one. Public opinion in Turkey is against the harem. Polygamy is now bootleg." Dr. Sven V. Knudsen herded 304 U.S. schoolboys aboard the Hellig Olav, bound on a goodwill tour of Scandinavia. What Pilgrim Knudsen told friends at the pier, what he may reveal to awed Scandinavians, is this: "The boy of today is the man of tomorrow." Count Leo Tolstoi, venerable, charming...
...Gold medals of the Academy for 'distinguished scientific achievement were awarded to: Otto Sven Petterson, Sweden, for studies in the chemistry and physics of the sea; Arthur Stanley Eddington, Cambridge, Eng land, for his interpretation of the Einstein theory applied to astronomical problems; C. V. Ludwig Charlier, Sweden, for contributions to astronomy; Bashford Dean, Columbia, for his Biography of Fishes; William Morton Wheeler, Harvard, for his Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition; Ferdinand Canu, Versailles, France, for his study of the North American Bryozoa (small marine animals). The medals to foreign scientists were received by their respective embassies...
...Monday, October 10, at 8 P. M., in Lawrence 3, Dr. Sven Knudsen, Head Master of the Hellerup Gymnasium, Copenhagen, Denmark, will give an illustrated lecture on "Denmark, the Country and Its Schoolss." Dr. Knudsen is on a government mission in this country studying American education and has brought with him a number of lantern slides illustrating Denmark, and especially its system of education...