Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the 13 foreign countries represented in the school there are 36 students. China with nine has the largest number, Canada is second with seven, and Japan third with five. Among the other countries represented are Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, Denmark and India. There are six more foreign students this year than last, and the grand total of 615 is 15 in excess of last year's record...
Last week, similar treaties were signed with Sweden and with the Netherlands. There are now eight "twelvemile treaties" in all. But whereas it took more than six months to negotiate the first treaty, it took only seven months for the signing of seven more such conventions...
...eight treaties concern the U. S. and Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy, Panama, Sweden and the Netherlands...
...last bugle note sounded in Colombes Stadium; a cannon boomed; down came the broad, embroidered Olympic standard from its masthead. Officials had gathered, had distributed prizes, had declared the Eighth Olympiad at an end. Tag-end events were won as follows : Weightlifting, Italy; yachting, Norway; equestrian sports, Sweden; cycling, France; gymnastics, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland. The few athletes remaining in Paris paid bills, packed trunks, bought tickets, caught steamer-trains, held postmortems. Led by the London Times, British newspapers chimed in on the post-mortems with notes for the most part sour. The Times flatly asserted that the games had inflamed...
...championships (rugby, shooting, track and field, catch-as-catch-can wrestling, rowing, tennis, swimming) credited in twelve branches of completed competition, the U. S. clinched a victory over the other Nations of the earth for all-round Olympic honors: U. S. 83; Great Britain 33; France 30; Finland 30; Sweden 22½; Norway 20¼; Uruguay 10; Argentina...