Word: sweden
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Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51,227 Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 34,007 Irish Free State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,567 Sweden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,561 Norway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,453 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,982 France. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,954 Czecho-Slovakia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,073 Denmark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,789 Russia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,248 Switzerland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,081 Netherlands. . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,648 Austria. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785 Yugo-Slavia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 671 Rumania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . 603 Belgium. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Hungary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 Finland...
...lack of boats and galleys face Charles XII† of Sweden with disaster at the siege of Frederikshall? Emmanuel Swedenborg invented a machine to transport them overland. Did youths need verses in Latin for ladies? They applied to Swedenborg. Did house chimneys smoke or the deaf suffer? Swedenborg cured the chimneys and gave the deaf an ear trumpet. Did the world need an interpretation of the Scriptures? Swedenborg furnished...
Except for Mr. Dresser's provocative paper on Birth Control-a subject now agitating several churches-the annual Swedenborgian convention was uneventful. But this proved sufficient cause to recapture from historical lore the name by which this smallest of sects is known: Emmanuel Swedenborg, of Sweden, who was poet, mystic, mathematician, physician, statesman, inventor-almost everything but a Malthusian...
...produced a report on smelting and assaying which was a masterpiece of detail; he guided Sweden in its currency policy, dealt with the balance of trade and the liquor laws, ancestored all Scandinavian geologists, arrived at the nebular hypothesis to explain the formation of planets long before Kant and LaPlace, was an original chemist, sketched a flying machine...
...whole man power fit to bear arms for fixed periods in each year, diminishing as time goes on. Under this system, all hale male nationals are liable to do military service between certain ages, usually between 19 and 48. The six countries which have adopted this system: Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Denmark and Finland (only a semi-militia system). The respective terms of military service for the first years are: 65 days, 48 days, 150 days, 160 days, 150 days, one year (owing to Finland's fear of Russia...