Word: norwegian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles of the Finnish-Norwegian frontier, while all along that same line the desperate Finns were battling to delay the swift Russian advance. The Russians had cut off Finland's only outlet to the Arctic Ocean, were holding the northern end of the Arctic Highway, and were again threatening the Finnish supply lines from Sweden by a swift southward thrust on the highway...
...SVANVIK, Norwegian-Finnish Frontier Russian troops led by whippet tanks tonight reached the Norwegian frontier when they marched into the nickel-mining town of Salmajaervi, left a blazing mass of ruins by the torches and dynamic blastings of retreating Finnish troops...
...Oslo last week the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the Norwegian Parliament announced that it will make no 1939 award, recalled that during World War I the award was given only once, in 1917 to the International Committee of the Red Cross...
...Norwegian freighter Solviken, seeking to enter Singapore harbor. She headed for a mine field. Whang went a warning shot from a shore battery across her bows, out came a patrol ship to lead Solviken into port...
...Norwegian winner of the prize...