Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bobsleigh competition the Swiss team won with a time of 5 minutes 45 54-100 seconds in four descents of the 1,444 metre chute?near-ly 40 miles an hour. The British team was second, Belgium and France, third and fourth. The chute was dangerous, and a number of accidents resulted. Broken legs were the chief casualties. The Captain of the British team was among the wounded...
...reign. According to reports from Austrian sources, all school children in the Principality received a ration of white bread and a dish of sausages to celebrate the occasion. The Prince, who spends a good deal of his time in Vienna, made a practical contribution of 10,000 Swiss francs ($1,728) toward the building of a fifth bridge over the Rhine, which divides Liechtenstein from Switzerland. Prince John, aged 83, ascended the throne of Liechtenstein on Nov. 12, 1858, when...
...said, cows graze in the main streets. Until 1868 the Principality maintained an army of 91, but in that year the army was abolished. The population, mostly of German extraction and Catholic in religion, is about 11,000. The budget in 1922 was balanced at 384,500 Swiss francs ($66,441), and there is no public debt. The language was formerly Romonsch (dialect of the old Roman Empire), but is now German with only a few traces of the Romance...
This little State lies between the Swiss Cantons of St. Gallen an Graubiinden and the Austrian province of Voralberg. Until after the War the State was in the Austrian Customs Union, but in 1921 it joined the Swiss Customs Union and it is Switzerland who administers the telegraph, postage and coinage systems. According to the Constitution, granted in October, 1921, Liechtenstein is a limited monarchy...
...Swiss Room of the Oopley-Plaza will be the scene on February 15th of the Law School Dance. Festivities will last from 9 until 2 o'clock...