Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even long-neutral Sweden was affected by the season's warlike stirrings, but announced last week that it would have to postpone its scheduled spring maneuvers; Sweden's army was temporarily incapacitated by influenza...
C.O.D.? In Stockholm, Sweden, stonecutters were still chipping away at a 1940 order: one victory monument for Adolf Hitler...
...went to Sweden last summer, blandly asked if he could enter a private, cutthroat mile race featuring Sweden's top swifties. Grumpy Gunder Hägg objected, then consented if Hansenne lagged behind the field, kept out of the way. The man Hansenne beat that day was the right...
...sports expert for Paris' L'Etoile du Soir, he confidently predicts that Sweden's Lennart Strand will be the first to run a four-minute mile. With the Wanamaker Mile behind him, Hansenne expects to give MacMitchell some uncomfortable moments in this week's Boston Hunter Mile. Experts agree that he is the most promising plodder to invade the U.S. in years, and that on an outdoor track he has Olympic class...
Great Britain, faced with the task of building a brand-new team, drew France's better-seasoned team as a first-round foe, seemed sure to die a quick death. Sweden, best bet to win the European zone eliminations, drew a first-round pushover, The Netherlands. The U.S., with the Philippines No. i on its victim list, had still to choose its team from a serviceable but slightly shopworn list of likely Davis Cup candidates.* Cockily aloof from it all were the confident Australians, Davis Cup victors in 1939, likely repeaters...