Word: leningraders
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...square miles; in population 5,873,356 inhabitants, 2,000,000 of them foreign born; in Italians, larger than Rome; in Irishmen, larger than Dublin; in Germans, larger than Bremen; in Jews, 10% of all those in the world; in telephones, more than in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Leningrad combined; in annual pork consumption, 450,000,000 lb.; in annual banana consumption, 435,000,000 lb.; in annual onion consumption, 85,000,000 lb.; in annual sugar consumption, 525,000,000 lb.; in total annual food consumption, four and a half million tons...
...left Russia without a cent and found it necessary therefore to sell my soul to the devil. Yes, I sold it, and it is not my fault. As soon as I fulfill these contracts, I hope to be able to accept your invitation to come to Moscow and Leningrad...
...uproarious final carnival. The former director of the "Gay Theatre for Grown-Up Children" and of the so-called "Cracked Looking Glass" set the style for the free theatre which Meyer hold and others have carried on in Soviet Russia, and though he has himself shaken the dust of Leningrad and Moscow from his feet and wanders an exile through the Caucasus and in Paris, Evreinov still knows how to keep us amused in the same fanciful way. Evreinov, the musician who had for his music master Rimski-Korsakov, can still play fantastically upon every mood. Like the Spanish dramatist...
...Winkle had awakened last week in Leningrad or Tokyo, or Cape Town, he would not have known that Stanford had not beaten California for 20 years, but if he had awakened in Stanford Stadium he would have known it. There were 75,000 people there to convince him, half of them quite crazy with delight. Captain Nevers, "blond behemoth" of the Stanford team, showed quite conclusively that Stanford could beat the California team-beat it 26 to 14-to the tune of incredulity and frenzy...
...developed epilepsy. In its veins Pavlof found a toxin which he believes to be the specific cause of the epileptic condition. He immunized a healthy beast by injecting it with the toxin. "If this works with humans," his assistant Dr. Speranski, told a concourse of physicians at Leningrad, "Pavlof has a cure for epilepsy...