Word: swedes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been most prominently mentioned, the Swedish Academy, with the old-maidish perversity for which it is famed, withheld the prize for a year, finally awarded it to George Bernard Shaw. Last week's amends were handsome. This year the prizes bequeathed by the late Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, are larger than ever before. Thomas Mann will...
...Swede Nobel's bequest was $9,000,000. Every year 68% of the income is available for prizes; 22% for "expenses." The remaining 10% is added to the slowly increasing fund. Original Nobel Prizes in 1901 were $40,511. After the War they declined to a low of $30,802 in 1923, due to high taxes and depreciation of the Swedish kronor. This year for the first time Sweden has taken most of the taxes off the Nobel Fund, a deed of grace long stormily debated...
...team through various routine work. During the early part of the afternoon the team went through a blacking and tackling practice, as Coach Cannell is still a little dubious about the powers of his eleven in this line. In the meantime the Gray team, under the supervision of Swede Young storm, a former Dartmouth All-American, was concentrating on various Harvard forward and lateral pass plays...
During the afternoon session the coaches gave most of their attention to the third and fourth teams. The Grays, under the direction of Swede Youngstrom, played the part of the Harvard eleven, running through the various Crimson plays and passes with some degree of success. The third and fourth teams were on the defensive during most of the scrimmage, but late in the afternoon Bart McDonough, Bill Morton and Bill McCall took turns at directing the Green team, running through plays which the coaches considered rough in spots and needing some improvement. The practice would have continued until after dark...
...Dartmouth as a line coach went "Swede" Youngstrom', 1919 All-American Dartmouth guard who blocked 23 punts in one season. A stiffer line, less passing, is to be the new strategy at Dartmouth...