Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manufactures of their countries?16 makes of German pianos, organs, sounding brass and a wide variety of intricate woodwork for translating still air into meaningful reverberations; 19 German and 18 French music publishing exhibits; "His Master's Voice" (Gramophone) from England; instruments and music from the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden; a Steinway piano exhibit from the U. S. There was a colossal German piano that played quarter tones; a weird French orphéal like a harmonium superimposed on a piano...
Executives of the National Federation of Trade Unions, Sweden...
...three Harvard, runners, although they will be unable to give Wide as good race as stars of the calibre of Ritola or Goodwin would, are expected to offer the invader from Sweden satisfactory opposition. Haggerty, probably the best miler in college ranks, has raced four times to intercollegiate titles in his specialty, while Reid and Flaksman are highly rated as two-milers, both having placed in the indoor intercollegiate two-mile run in New York last winter...
Berg is a very common name in the Scandinavian countries, where there are few Jews, and is in fact the "Smith" of Norway and Sweden...
Meanwhile the Bolsheviki were strengthened by the return of their exiled leaders from Sweden, Switzerland, the U. S. Their strategy was to give expression to a wide spread craving for peace and land. The German general staff so completely understood this that Bolshevik Lenin was hurried from Switzerland across Germany in a sealed railway car. He was injected as a social virus into Russia by Germany...