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Word: sweden (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...varied program for the International Intercollegiate Night on the air. Hundreds of men from at least 45 colleges and universities in this country and abroad will take part. M. I. T. alumni will present a burlesque skit; a quartet of graduates from the Royal Polytechnic Institute of Sweden will render a number of native songs; several Yale men will probably give the famous Undertaker's Song; a group from the British Empire will sing college songs from New Zealand, Canada, and even India...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WGY TO PUT "HIT THE LINE FOR HARVARD" ON THE AIR | 1/27/1925 | See Source »

...certain that, if the pound continues to rise and maintains its advance, the British Government will permit the shackles about gold currency to be unlocked at the end of the year, but nothing is likely to happen before then. This view is backed by the fact that Germany, Poland, Sweden, Holland have all-to a greater or lesser extent-reverted to gold payments. Britain can hardly afford to drop behind these countries if she is to retain financial supremacy in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Gold | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...rays, which pass through most solids, can be refracted. Photographs were taken of the rays spread out in fans passing through crystals.-Prof. Manne Siegbaton, Upsala, Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grand Conclave | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...England also is endeavoring to unite Finland, Esthonia and Latvia into a Baltic league, which will have Sweden's support. England also has succeeded in promoting friendship between Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Poland. It is easy to see that England is preparing a widespread offensive against the Soviet Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bad Britons | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...Musical Academy of Stockholm, Sweden, a poet gave a recital. He was Evert Taube, troubadour, who makes music with his lute to the words of his poems. Of gods and heroes he sang, of knights and demons fighting by waters black with ice, of flaxen-haired princesses. Ever, meanwhile, his lute spoke underneath, sadly, gayly, wildly. Loud did Swedish people in the Musical Academy applaud Poet Taube, last of the troubadours. "He is a second Bellman*," they said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harp | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

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