Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...000th "document," deposited quite unceremoniously last week, consisted of a packet of notes exchanged between Norway and Sweden respecting the continuance of the Swedish-Norwegian Arbitration Convention of 1905. Statisticians observed that 940 treaties have already been published by the League Secretariat, in 35 volumes of 400 pages each. Further they noted that all these documents have been published in French and English, and additionally in the language of origin when that happens to be neither French nor English. To date, Germany though not a member of the League has made heavy contributions to the documents on register...
From the British Admiralty came an announcement last week that the mysterious "sinking without a trace" of the great monitor submarine M-1 (TIME, Nov. 23) is now thought to have resulted from a collision with the little Swedish freighter Vidar, of only 2159 tons, off the coast of Devonshire...
...secure accomplishment. Meanwhile many a semiliterate inquired, "Why do them Swedes spell 'noble' 'n-o-b-e-l'?"; and many a citizen of ripe culture wondered just who Alfred Bernhard Nobel really was, and exactly how he had occupied himself in amassing the thirty million Swedish kroner ($9,000,000) with which he endowed the Nobel Foundation...
...most phenomenally successful enterprises of the 19th Century. He himself invented dynamite, and reaped fabulous tribute from the whole world for the secret. The entire family labored incessantly at the invention and manufacture of super-combustibles. So numerous were the explosions and fires which wrecked their laboratories that the Swedish Government forbade them at one time to experiment on Swedish soil. Undaunted, they anchored a laboratory-barge in the middle of Lake Malaren, near Stockholm, and continued their death-pregnant experiments...
...outbreak, assess damages, see that all prisoners of war are released, and recommend steps calculated to prevent further trouble. 2) The Commission will be chairmaned by Sir Horace Rumbold, British Ambassador to Spain, and will consist of a French and an Italian officer and two civilians, respectively Dutch and Swedish. 3) It will have an allowance of 100,000 gold francs ($20,000) for expenses...