Word: bol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Borah and others who advocate American recognition of the Soviet remains to be seen. As far as the general public is concerned, however, it can have but one result; to strengthen the feeling that the Russian Government is not yet to be trusted. The post-war flurry of the "Bol-shevist menace", with other absurdities of the time, has passed; but the mysterious motives of the Soviet Union have not yet been brought to light. The United States, as things stand at present, does more business with Russia than England has been doing with the facilities she afforded the agents...
Factories. Concurrently with a report that 150,000 were idle in Mos cow and were being kept alive on doles, came the news that the Bol shevik Government intends to permit business men to establish indus trial concerns. The only restrictions placed in a draft of the decree were that concerns employing or intending to employ more than 20 men must seek permission of the local Soviet to start operations. Those concerns, employing more than 200 men must make concessionary agreements with the Republic in which the concern is situate...
...College, attacked the alleged Rembrandt myth, assiduously fostered by critics, collectors and the public, which has ascribed over 800 paintings of varying merit to the master. He finished by conceding authenticity to a scant 35. The rest of the works commonly attributed to Rembrandt, he claims, are by Eeckhout, Bol, Kolnick, Horst, Fabritius, Backer, de Gelder and other pupils, copyists, or imitators of Rembrandt, and since the great Hollander's vogue became so high in the last century, they have been assigned to him through motives of cupidity, pride, national interest or pure habit...