Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Jakobson, who will teach in the field of Slavic philology and advanced literature, holds degrees from the Universities of Moscow and Prague. He is the author of over 200 books and articles on Russian, Czech and Slovak language, literature, and folklore...
...Stockholm's Central Station the Czech ice hockey team lined up to take the southbound train. The players had just won the world's championship and they were in an alcoholic mood. Happiest of all was hefty, beaming Manager Antonin Vo-dicka. "Everybody here?" he asked. "We could not find Marek," glowered the thinlipped man whom Prague had sent along to act as the team's Communist chaperon. But Vodicka was unconcerned. "Maybe he's in the train," he hiccoughed and stumbled in himself...
...more menacing face which French Communism was showing to France and the world had been assumed on orders from Moscow which were transmitted to the French Communist Party through a minor employee in the Czech embassy.† Last week s statements were framed by the party's Political Control Commission, a body formed some months ago after Rumania's Pauker and Bulgaria's Dimitrov had castigated the French comrades, at a Cominform meeting, for "bourgeois tendencies." The commission has become the most powerful organ in the French apparatus, outranking the Central Committee and even its Politburo. Maurice...
...Czech newsmen's congress was told that to make the Czechoslovakian press "perfect," all but one of these would be necessary...
...December, Robert B. Jung, a Berlin-born Czech who is a veteran of the anti-Hitler underground, started a new publication in Manhattan which will specialize...