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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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, we shall now proceed to construct the Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dreams and Realities | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dreams and Realities | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Class, nearly to a man, imported "the-girl-from-back-home." Of these a vast majority were brunettes with only a few blondes and a lonely red-haired girl. For 50 per cent of the class it was their first college prom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ST. BONAVENTURE PROM NON-JITTERBUG AFFAIR | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...Hedy Lamarr. She is not Greta Garbo. She is not even Ann Sheridan. She is just Deanna Durbin, the kind of a girl you would like to have a little later on. But just the same, if you haven't absorbed too much ultra sophistication from the ancient halls of Harvard, you will enjoy "Three Smart Girls Grow Up." There is a script that is always bright and sometimes scintillates. There are some delightful scenes in the parlor where Deanna tries to straighten out her sisters' love affairs. There is some superlative humor contributed by the absent minded Charles Winninger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

Both the brain-waves and the girl's facial expressions are reproduced on the same motion picture film and shown to medical experts, who can then often make startling diagnoses which would otherwise take weeks of observation in a hospital, according to Dr. Schwab...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Medical School Research Man Devises Brain-Wave Machine for Studying Fits | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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