Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is accurate. The square foot age of St. Peter's at Rome is 227, -069; of the Mesquita at Cordova 232,250, less about one-third for courtyard and cloisters; of Santa Maria de la Sede at Seville 128,570 of St. John the Divine at New York 109,082; of the Duomo at Milan 107,-000. The Mesquita, many pillared was at one time a mosque, the largest sacred building of the Mohammedans, after their Kaaba at Mecca When in the 16th Century the Mesquita, with many alterations, was transformed to a Roman Catholic cathedral, Emperor Charles...
...revolution: the substitution of one privileged class for another; for, today, in Communist Russia the workers are the aristocracy, and the former aristocracy and the bourgeoisie rank even lower than did the workers under the Tsars-they do not count at all. Only workers & peasants over the age of 18 can vote...
MIKHAIL IVANOVITCH KALININ, 52, First Chairman of the Union Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party, a position roughly corresponding to the Presidency of the Soviet Union. Born a peasant, Kalinin (Karlee'neen) migrated to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) at the age of 14 to work in a cartridge factory. There he became interested in revolutionary intrigue; imprisonment, banishment repeated themselves, as in the case of most of the revolutionists. Liberated in 1917, he took an active part in the Bolshevist revolution and in 1921 was elected to his present post. He is a small, wiry, typical...
...first arrested in 1898 at the age of 19; Tsarist persecution followed. Escaping from Siberia in 1902, he remained abroad until the 1905 revolution broke out. He then returned to Russia, only to be arrested as the Chairman of the Workers' Committee. Railroaded to Siberia, he managed to escape and for ten years lived in foreign lands, coming...
...have constantly seen throughout this history . . . that the right to work is absolutely essential to the happiness of women. . . ." If the title is in a sense a slur, a compliment to femininity is the distinguished style and brilliant perception of Author John Langdon-Davies, previously noted for The New Age of Faith...