Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winter Olympics winner at St. Moritz, with 82 points, was: 1. The U.S. 2. Sweden. 3. Norway. 4. Switzerland. 5. Russia...
...death penalty for murder was abolished for a trial period of five years in: 1. Great Britain. 2. France. 3. The Netherlands. 4. Sweden. 5. Russia...
...Wimbledon, wearing a new crew haircut (he once used ribbons to tie up his blond thatch), Sweden's Lennart Bergelin, 23, tore into top-seeded Frank Parker. It produced the tennis upset of the year. Down went Parker, in five sets. But Bergelin's new look wasn't enough to get him by hard-hitting Bob Falkenburg in the quarterfinals. The Swede fell before Falkenburg's big serve...
...Brent and his friends succeeded in mustering representatives of 127 church groups in Lausanne, Switzerland, "for the consideration of questions touching Faith and Order." Meanwhile another interdenominational group had met in Stockholm under the leadership of Archbishop Nathan Söderblom, Primate of Sweden, to discuss the social, economic and political ills that plague humanity. Both groups called their next meetings in the same year-1937. Then both conferences voted to set up a joint body, to be called the World Council of Churches...
...created) to check the Majlis; power to dismiss the Majlis and order new elections. Complained the Shah recently: "Here I am-the Shah of Persia-and I have less power than any man on earth. I'd like to have just half the power of the King of Sweden...