Word: norwegian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popularity is due to his sea-roving expeditions through the allied blockades during the war when he camouflaged an armed vessel as a Norwegian fishing schooner with the Count, himself, taking the part of the captain. Thus disguised the ship was able to proceed through enemy zones and sink hostile ships. He boasts to have sent 25 allied ships to the bottom without killing or injuring a man, a fact to which the many medals he has been awarded bear testimony. His adventures before the war when he ran away from home and worked his way around the world...
...long time the political trend has been toward the Left, but the electorate, while increasingly enamoured of more and more advanced social legislation, retains its poise, stability, and that deep and broad democracy which is bred in the Norwegian bone, a heritage from sturdy Vikings. Therefore since the Socialist and Communist parties achieved between them 61 of the 150 seats in the Storting, at the elections of last Fall, they have been given an opportunity, which flowered last week, of expounding and testing their theories from the part of Power. Cannily watching the situation and holding a salutary whip hand...
...Penttila, representing Finland, has launched the javelin 213 feet. Sund, the Norwegian, has done 204 feet and Molles of Germany and Lindstrom from Sweden have also achieved something like 200 odd feet. America cannot equal these European marks. However, we have improved a great deal in the last few years and America has at least six men approaching the 200 foot mark...
After the revaluation of the lira at 5.31 cents gold (see FOREIGN NEWS), there remain unfixed on a gold basis only the currencies of France, Norway and Spain among the more important European countries. Norwegian finances are rapidly approaching a stage where the gold basis of money exchange can be reset up; and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has just stated that he expected France and Spain to imitate Italy's money program...
Authorities knew that the message came from a tiny emergency radio set aboard the Dawn. So many hours had she been missing that they knew she was down at sea. Rising, falling somewhere on the winter waves were Mrs. Grayson, Norwegian Pilot Oskar Omdal, Navigator Brice Goldsborough, Fred Keohler, Wright engine expert...