Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particular attraction in Sweden this year is the Gothenburg Jubilee Exposition which opened on May 8 and which will continue until September 30. It includes unusually good educational, historical, archaeological and fine and applied arts exhibits. The educational exhibits will illustrate in models, charts, photographs and printed matter, the Swedish educational scheme, including a section on the "sloyd" or manual training system in the schools. This "sloyd" is of great significance in the art handicraft and industrial art movement which has taken such great strides in Sweden during the past decade...
...Swedish Diet approved a bill to allow women to enter the public services on the same footing as men, with the exception of the fighting services, the Church, presiding judgeships in the highest provincial courts...
...American bowling team, wandering far from home in search of honor, was defeated by a Swedish team in Stockholm. The Americans thus lost the American Bowling Union Trophy, a $500 cup, which they had taken abroad with them to be placed in international competition as a perpetual challenge trophy...
...Gothenburg Exposition, greatest world fair ever held in Scandinavia, was opened by King Gustavus V before a vast assembly of Swedish people interspersed with foreigners. It commemorates the tercentenary of the founding of Gothenburg by King Gustavus Adolphus...
...Discuss Swedish Prohibition...