Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swedish Alfred Bernhard Nobel's posthumous Prize-giving began in 1901. Emil von Behring (1854-1917), German, won the first Prize in Medicine for his discovery that the serum of an immunized person will confer immunity against the same disease on another into whom it is injected (Behring...
Engaged. Clairenore Stinnes, daughter of the late great German industrialist Hugo Stinnes; and Axel Soederstroem, Swedish cinematographer; at Berlin. Last spring they completed a two-year automobile globetrot (TIME...
Statistics are usually more decorative than useful. Although it is true that Sweden's annual match output would reach to the moon if laid end-to-end, no lunatic ever thought of asking Swedish Match Tycoon Ivar Kreuger to make his statistic come true...
...France's Author Cendrars, alone in Russia at 15, made his living roaming from Lapland to the Caucasus; from Mongolia to Siberia to China. In 1908 he landed in Manhattan from a tramp steamer, turned poet. Later he lost his right arm in the War, wrote for the Swedish Ballet, compiled Negro poems, folklore...
...Swedish and a Protestant, she at first was booed by rural Belgian prudes because she puffed cigarets in public. Mother of a girl-babe, she is tolerably popular...