Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel manufacturer, who had offered $250,000 for making copies of J.G. Larsson's device and then disposing of them. He explained that the inventor was in the U.S. to demonstrate his invention so that telephone companies might use it as standard equipment: he pointed out that in Sweden, whence Inventor Larsson had come and where he lives, Inventor Larsson's device has been demonstrated and found good by government engineers...
When Dr. Erskine and I have finished with our copies of TIME we give them to Miss Hanna Wall, a Swedish friend, who, when she has read them, sends them to her brother in Sweden...
...Nobel diplomas were handed to M. Buisson and Herr Quidde by tall, rugged King Gustav V of Sweden. Diplomas covering literature, medicine and physics were then handed by His Majesty to winners announced some weeks ago (TIME...
There are models of airplanes, airplane engines, and a collection of books and magazines dealing with commercial aviation. England, France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Russia, Belgium, Siam, Japan and other foreign countries have contributed time-tables and other printed material dealing with their air services...
Besides his achievements along these lines, Peter was the true founder of the Russian Empire that endured in solitary state for two centuries, and only fell in the overthrow of Nicholas in 1915. His war with Sweden that gave him, after the Battle of Pultowa, the hegemony of Northern Europe, was one of the greatest military campaigns of history, and the edifice which Peter founded was a lasting tribute to the genius and leadership...