Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most romantic branch. In Mongolia and other nomadic border lands the natives are under an impression, perhaps mistaken, that a local chieftain whom the Ogpu considers superfluous often dies from the prick of a poisoned nail in his saddle. Commissar Stanislas Redens of the Ogpu Moscow Section. Commissar Leonid Zakovsky of the Ogpu Leningrad Section. Vsevolod Balitsky of the Ogpu Ukranian Section. Decidedly able, Commissar-General Yagoda is credited with having devised perhaps the Ogpu's brightest idea from the viewpoint of entrenching the Ogpu as a permanent and self-supporting organ of the State. The idea: to embark...
...some good-humored remarks that U. S. businessmen need not expect to do any more business with the Soviet Union than the amount that the U. S. was prepared to extend in credit. About the same time he also attended a tea given in Manhattan by Soviet Consul General Leonid Tolokonsky...
...more drastic Bolshevik Terror, terror in its purest form. Because a member of the Soviet Politbureau or Red Big Ten had been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died to express the Government's determination that Nicolaev's act should not be the model for others...
Lying flat on their backs in freezing weather, attendants at Harvard's Oak Ridge Observatory have been watching eagerly every night since Tuesday for concentrated showers of Leonid meteors...
...When the Leonid meteors coursed through the upper air last November, Astronomer Olivier had 14 scattered observers chart the meteor trails. Comparison of data showed the meteors traveling 90 to 142 m. p. h. The faster ones began to glow from atmospheric friction when 84 mi. from earth's surface. At 54 mi. they burned themselves out. Two of the meteors spattered luminescent trains behind them, which Astronomer Olivier's men saw floating 50 to 60 mi. aloft. Wind drove one train upward at an angle of 55 degrees and a speed of 142 m. p. h. Wind...