Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never lived to see his rhythmic technique accepted by his native land. He died in 1879, while traveling from St. Petersburg to Stockholm, was buried in the little Finnish village of Gamla-Karleby. Thirty years later, Manhattan Socialite Irving Brokaw, after winning an international prize in Switzerland, brought the International Style of skating back to the U. S. It spread like wildfire after European stars, like the great Charlotte, staged spectacular exhibitions in Manhattan's Hippodrome...
...feature event of the meeting, which is open to all who are interested, will be ski movies taken in Switzerland showing professionals demonstrating the Swiss ski technique...
...Luther of Medicine," who violently attacked the authority of Galen, was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim. He was born in Switzerland in 1493. (Last week in Manhattan the New York Academy of Medicine celebrated the 400th anniversary of Paracelsus' death.) A hotheaded youth, Paracelsus doffed his doctor's biretta for a slouch hat, wandered through Western Europe, treating workmen and peasants. Because he believed in experience rather than in Galen's laws, he was hounded by his fellow doctors. No university would employ him, no printer would publish his books. But his motley disciples followed...
With the exception of Captain Errazuriz, the members of the team are all University students in Santiago. Captain "Canuto" has spent most of his life in Europe, and roomed with George B. Feete '41 at school in Switzerland one year...
Turner's paintings include work done in France, Great Britain, Italy, and Switzerland. He studied under George Demetrios and Eliot O'Hara...