Word: kharkov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodore Dunham '21, of the Mount Wilson Observatory, has left, and Professor Boris Gerasimovic has returned to Kharkov, Russia, after spending nearly three years at the Harvard Observatory as research associate...
Educated by his mother and at the University of Kharkov, Russia, he developed Socialistic leanings, and finally incurred the suspicion of the Tsaral police, who secured his exile to Siberia (1887-92). In 1894 he and his first wife began secretly to publish Robotnik (The Workman), a Socialist propaganda organ, which was discovered by the Tsaral police in 1904, resulting in Pilsudski's imprisonment...
...crew or troubled their artist minds; they fired salutes beneath Capital's boots, with every expectation of booming gales of applause from "workers." The cover design was a brawny miner with an idea bursting from his skull. Scott Nearing, famed sociologist, just back from a trip to Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov, Tiflis and other centres of culture, limned a deplorable contrast between the mammon-ridden U.S. and progressive Soviet Russia. Robert W. Dunn, young Yale Communist, described with devastating irony the activities of a Massachusetts labor-spy. "Bad Bishop" William Montgomery Brown contributed his revolutionary blessing (and a check...
...over from Moscow, via the Wolfsohn Musical Bureau, the report that Maria Kurenko, ex-criminal-law-student, will put all comers out of the running when she arrives in the U. S. in November. She has paved her way with reports of unbridled enthusiasms evoked by her appearances in Kharkov, Moscow, Riga, Helsingfors, Paris. Her birthplace is Tomsk, Siberia...