Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following out work in this country. Two of these men, Professor G. H. Edgell '09, and Professor S. F. Hamblin, have been granted sabbatical leave for the coming academic year, and will continue their work throughout the winter. The research will be widely varied in its aspects, covering Swedish architecture. French water colors, English landscape and domestic architecture, a study of the ruins of the Romanesque monastic group at Cluny, as well as American city planning...
Professor Edgell, dean of the school, will first visit Sweden for a short time to study modernism in Swedish architecture. His subsequent plans are not as yet definite...
...World) insisted on editing a contribution to one of the newspaper columns. Somebody had written in to say that before the triumphs of Lindbergh most Americans had regarded all Scandinavians as dullwitted. 'Heywood,' said the responsible editor, 'don't you realize that our Swedish readers would be offended...
...three-quarters centuries make a long time. Few U. S. communities are so old. In one tenth that time, many a U. S. community has changed entirely-the German and Swedish farmers of a Wisconsin county into jitney-riding city stenographers and factory hands; the Italian truck-gardeners of an Ohio township into the proprietors of a bootlegging "Little Italy." Americanization crusades and Progress have made racial slag, temporarily, of much that was pure foreign metal in the North. In the South and Far West, what remains of the Spanish scarcely suffices to fill the realty booklets...
...member of many societies, among these the Legion of Honor of France. Other academies he belonged to were the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, American Classical Society, Royal Swedish Academy, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1910 he was awarded the Davy Medal by the Royal Society...