Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eyck. Belittlers have insisted that the small panels (each 22¼ by 7¾ in.) do not belong together: they have hinted that no such person as Hubert van Eyck ever existed. Nobody has ever denied that the two panels have been among the greatest treasures of the Leningrad Hermitage Museum for more than 80 years, that with their gay Flemish color, their microscopic detail yet breadth of execution-photographs of the tiny panels make them look like murals-they are among the most important paintings in the world. The Brothers van Eyck (Hubert 1366- 1426; John 1385-1441) used...
Petersburg (now Leningrad) from which he and a genuine madman escaped Item: 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War able Conspirator Pilsudski rushed around the world to Tokyo and nearly persuaded the Imperial Japanese Government to finance a Polish revolution against Tsar Nicholas II. The Japanese took Conspirator Pilsudski so seriously that they made a solemn agreement by the terms of which prisoners of war who turned out to have been born in the then Russian Poland were kept separate from other "Russian" prisoners in Japan while Polish organizations arranged for their transport to Polish colonies in the neutral U.S. Items...
From what in Leningrad corresponds to Washington's U. S. Bureau of Standards, last week came a method of determining where lightning is apt to strike. A bolt jumps from a cloud to earth when the atmospheric electrical tension becomes stronger than the resistance of the air between. The air resistance depends upon its ionization, and the ionization-Professor L. N. Bogoiavlensky assumes-depends on buried radioactive rocks and the electro-conductivity of the earth above. Hence he and his assistants go about with meters to register such radio-activity and electro-conductivity...
...wife, Curtis Bok decided he had not really seen the country. Sending his wife home he returned to Moscow, found lodgings with a Russian family in a tiny house, got a job tending a machine in a candy factory at 80 rubles per month. Thence he went to Leningrad, took another job as chauffeur for Intourist at 250 rubles. At the end of three months he returned to the U. S., second class, wearing a wrinkled brown suit, khaki shirt, flannel tie, battered cap, carrying two pieces of luggage and a cardboard box. He bubbled with enthusiasm over the Russians...
Jokesmiths all over Russia were making public mock last week of Terpilici State Farm near Leningrad from which 89 cows "disappeared" in a single recent night...