Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Gustaf V of Sweden, 90, ordered by his doctor to stay home, missed the annual dinner of the Swedish Academy for the first time in 74 years. Muttered His Majesty: "Hare-shooting is less fatiguing than attending public banquets...
...wear tweeds, and bring prayers into sport clubs and discuss religion with those who usually by-pass the church," said Bishop Aulén, who commented on the fact that Vicar Norby of Nacka, who has held the Swedish shot-put record, boasts some of the largest congregations in Sweden...
Last week, on the desolate, shell-pocked plateau outside Caen, scholars from Harvard, Yale and Smith, from Oxford, Liege, and Lausanne, and ambassadors from Belgium, Canada, and Sweden, gathered near a grandstand bedecked with flags. There France's Minister of National Education Yvon Delbos and Minister of Reconstruction Claudius Petit laid the cornerstone of the new university. Later, at a convocation in Caen's movie theater, the only large auditorium left in the city, an honorary degree was awarded to a university president who wasn't there: Columbia's Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose invasion plans...
This year, the five Swedish professors who form the committee that picks the Nobel Prizewinners in physics and chemistry debated long and secretly. One of the leading candidates was a Swede, and the Swedish committee did not want to be accused of favoritism. Last week they announced their decision: Sweden's Professor Arne Tiselius, 46, of Uppsala University, got the $44,371.63* prize in chemistry...
...fruit flies. Human increase, either among families or among nations, has no simple connection with the available food. High-income families, which get all the food they want, usually have fewer children than the poorest of the poor. The same is often (though not always) true of nations. Sweden, probably the best-fed nation in the world, has one of the lowest birth rates, only 15 per 1,000. Argentina, a notably well-fed nation, has a lower birth rate (21 per 1,000) than hungry Chile next door...