Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finland, not far from St. Petersburg itself. Twenty years before, Dagö Island had been colonized by good industrious Swedes who fished in the Gulf and made hay on the salt marshes. In 1787, Peter's grand-daughter-in-law, plump, passionate Catherine II grew tired of this Swedish colony practically at her doorstep. With a gesture she had it deported. The Dago fishermen and their families were driven to the mainland, herded across Russia, stopped for a time in southern Russia, settled at last in the Ukraine, out of sight and out of mind of Great Catherine. Here...
...Swedish. The Swedish plane Sverige reached Ivigtut on the east coast of Greenland. She had been held in Iceland for a month by engine trouble and bad weather (TIME, June...
...35th birthday was imminent, that he once said that he would marry when he was 35, matchmaking editors embroidered and elaborated the story. The London press decided that the engagement would be announced at an elaborate ball which was to be given for Princess Ingrid at the Swedish Legation...
...Reykjavik, Iceland's mountain-hugged harbor, the westbound Swedish "commercial" flyers (TIME, June 17) last week decided to wait until the end of this month before continuing their Stockholm-New York flight. Bad weather over Greenland and need for motor parts are delaying them...
...initiator was the Swedish seaplane Sverige, a Junkers like the Bremen of past fame. The Sverige's crew were Captain Albin Ahrenberg, Lieut. Axel Flodin and Mechanic Robert Ljunglund. Their course was to include stops at Stockholm (Sweden), Reykjavik (Iceland), Ivigtut (Greenland), Anticosti Island (Quebec), New York. Last week the Swedes got to Reykjavik, where a broken oil line forced their premature landing and delayed, at least, their completing the trip...