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Consensus of opinion at a forum on "Is the Soviet an Enigma" in the Lowell House Common Room monday night was that Communism has greatly improved many aspects of Russian life. Nicholas Slonimski, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, stated that music audiences in the Soviet have increased many fold since the Czarist regime was overthrown. A member of the Communist Party gave statistics to show that Soviet industrial power has been growing steadily, particularly in the last ten years, and regeneration of Soviet science was emphasized by Dirk Strulk...
...Foreign Relations Club heard Professor Michael Karpovitch discuss the enigma of Russia in the second World War last night in the Lowell House Common Room...
...most tragic chapter in U. S. history was written around an enigma which neither the North nor the South understood. That enigma was the South itself, and it is still unsolved. Last week a Southerner published a book that casts more light on the ancient riddle than any book before...
...Enigma in the Pink House. Roberto Ortiz, who may be the caudillo of his country if his health lets him, was on the point of accomplishing a revolutionary ambition when illness struck him down...
...being tried, for perjury. Found guilty, she was exiled to Connecticut. In the two trials, involving 134 witnesses, the hag was clearly proved to have been in a London suburb in January 1753, and at the same time to have been several counties away. This forms "the strangest enigma that ever faced a court of law," says Lawyer Barrett R. Wellington of Troy, N. Y. in The Mystery of Elizabeth Canning, a book which is both a mystery story and a case history in the perilous science of evidence. Wellington doubts that the crone had an enchanted broomstick. He thinks...