Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President! Mr. President!" taunted Union Member His Highness Prince Leonid Lieven (nephew-in-law of onetime Lord Mayor of London Sir Kynaston Studd). "Mr. President, although you may not be willing to fight for King & Country, I do think you might have put up some sort of show for the Union's minute book...
Patriotic Prince Leonid's country was Imperial Russia; his grandfather was Grand Master of Ceremonies at the Tsarist Court...
...Leonid meteor spectra, which the Observatory has obtained, are the first spectra of this kind ever to have been photographed. With the new photographs, the staff of the Observatory hopes to be able to study the conditions under which Leonid meteoric radiation is produced...
...plates of Leonid meteor spectra and one direct photograph of a leonid have been obtained to date from the observations made by members of the staff and students of the Harvard Observatory on the nights of Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, November...
...Author, Born in Moscow in 1899 Author Leonov comes of peasant stock living in the rural, backwoods province of Kaluga. His father was a self-taught poet, later a journalist, exiled to Archangel under the Tsar. Leonid graduated from the Third Moscow Gymnasium in 1918, was refused admission to Moscow University in 1922 after demobilization from the Red Army. He then moved to Archangel to be near his father. His first writings were in verse; his first novel, Barsuki (The Badgers) was published in 1925. Other books: Rasskazy (Tales), Golubye Pesky (Blue Sand), Vor (The Thief), Sot (Fodder). In Soviet...