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...Dartmouth as a line coach went "Swede" Youngstrom', 1919 All-American Dartmouth guard who blocked 23 punts in one season. A stiffer line, less passing, is to be the new strategy at Dartmouth...
...Marblehead, Mass. last week went a freak. High boomed she was, and with a prodigious spinnaker. U. S. yachtsmen, eyeing her sagely, restrained titters. Her owner and skipper, Capt. Eric Lundberg, a portly Swede, smiled obscurely. All this was before the races...
Pitchers Guy Bush of the Chicago Nationals and "Swede" Walberg of the Philadelphia Americans have also been exceptions to the general rule of the sad and battered pitcher. Both are fastball pitchers (like Grove) depending chiefly on their arms, little on their heads...
...grandfather was a Swede...
...Nobel prize for 1928, recently awarded her, amounts this year to $42,000, some half of which she has already given to charitable maintenance of mentally deficient children. The Nobel Prize, established in 1896 by the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, consists of five annual awards?one of them for "idealistic literature." Notable recipients have been Kipling, Maeterlinck, Tagore, Knut Hamsun, Anatole France, Yeats, Shaw, Henri Bergson...