Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Party. The 547 deputies who are now between 30 and 40 were in their teens or younger when the Bolsheviks grabbed power. On the eve of a session of the Congress of Soviets the Bolsheviks seized telegraph, telephone and other Government offices. The Congress then met, not in the Kremlin, but in what had been a girl's finishing school; on the night of Nov. 6, 1917, a few hours before it was to be called to order, a short, baldheaded, tireless revolutionary named Lenin stepped out of hiding before the delegates, stilled their applause, said laconically, "Comrades...
Four years before, a homely, dark-eyed, colorless girl named Fanny Kaplan stepped up to Lenin when he finished speaking at Michelson's factory in Moscow, shot him in the lungs and neck. On the eve of the second All Union Congress, Lenin died, the conflicting groups he had held together split apart...
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend...
...mild to increase Britain's military might sensationally, too strong to be interpreted only as a gesture on the eve of Hitler's Reichstag speech, conscription was primarily important in signalizing another break in Britain's traditions, another change in the status of British labor, another change in the status of British arms. For 70 years British practice has been to maintain a complementary unit in England for every Army unit required overseas. In theory each regiment has a battalion at home and one abroad, the home battalion training men to replace soldiers whose active service...
Mass picketing by students of Harvard, Radcliffe, and Wellesley took place in Harvard Square yesterday for the striking drivers of the Yellow Cab Company on the eve of today's meeting of the State Arbitration Board investigating the labor dispute...