Word: georgian
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...Russian journey was still verbal. It began in Tiflis, where two professors, S. R. Dzanashia and N. Berdzenishvili, wrote a letter demanding that 10,000 square miles of Turkey (see map), "the seized cradle of our people," be forthwith handed over to the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. The letter was promptly featured in Izvestia, Pravda and Red Star-the Government, Party and Army organs...
...student body (a phrase Dr. Perry hates) has jumped from 572 to 725-and each year Exeter turns down five times as many applicants as it accepts. Dr. Perry will leave Exeter embarrassingly rich-with a $10 million endowment, 33 ,new buildings, most of them handsome Georgian brick, and a faculty that has almost tripled. Exonians credit Dr. Perry's fund-raising talent for the school's prosperity. And in fact the biggest gift ($5 million) came from the late oil millionaire, Edward S. Harkness, benefactor of Harvard and Yale, who was no Exonian-just a friend...
...spring of 1907 a shaggy, obscure Georgian Communist attended a congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in London. Lenin noticed him, Trotsky...
Last week London admirers of the Georgian prepared to place a plaque on the house where he had stayed. But nobody knew the exact street address. To Moscow went an appeal for information. The Kremlin's answer: Joseph Stalin had forgotten too; it was somewhere in the Whitechapel slums...
Russians say: "Georgians live forever." Even so, Georgian Joseph Stalin was old enough (66) and tired enough to distribute some of his concentrated power among his subordinates...