Word: norwegian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WOMEN AT THE PUMP - Knut Hamsun-Translated from the Norwegian by Arthur G. Chater-Knopf...
June 17: Capt. Roald Amundsen, famed explorer, once companion of Pilgrim Nobile but now his bitter enemy, starts from Norway in a French seaplane with crew of four Frenchmen, one Norwegian...
...coast of Spain, if the ocean was kind to them. Only Nina had been sighted, early in her voyage, by the Cunarder Aquitania (TIME, July 16). Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond are in command of Nina. Their crew consists of eight young college graduates and undergraduates and a Norwegian cook. Said Mr. Root: "We rather expect to get wet. If the Nina runs into a storm, her crew will have salt water in their clothes, their food, their hair and their couch cushions...
...Norwegian, my blood boiled at these words which I have kept. But perhaps we are a patient people. Our newspapers continued not unfriendly to Nobile; and when he set out in the Italia, a dirigible of his own design, to prove that he, he, HE could circle the Pole, we wished him well. It was only when the faulty design of the Italia caused her to crumple, that my own heart became troubled. Too well I knew, as did all Norwegians, that Amundsen would feel compelled to rescue Nobile, because the Italian had wronged...
Fish. A new method has been developed whereby Norwegian herrings, Siberian sturgeon, faraway fish of every kind may be served in inland U. S. cities in the same luscious, savory, juicy state that they enjoyed when caught. The method consists of freezing so quickly and at so low a temperature that the flesh cells are not injured by ice crystals. The chemical composition remains the same; there is no opportunity for bacterial development or decomposition...