Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elbow, Presiding Justice Vyshinsky faced the microphone, told all Russia for an hour how extremely guilty the Court had found the prisoners, then paused to deliver sentence: "Xenophon. Sitnin! Ten years imprisonment!" Two other less important prisoners received the same sentence. But the five ringleaders, headed by Professor Leonid Ramzin, were condemned, one after an-other to: "The highest measure of social protection, Rastrel [Death by shooting]." At each death sentence cheers rang through the packed courtroom, echoed by a crowd of 10,000 which had been standing in the snow outside since 5 p. m.- seven hours. To correspondents...
Sowing Crisis. The confession of the No. 1 prisoner, Professor Leonid Ramzin, until his arrest Chairman of the All-Union Heating Institute, was too long to be got through at a single session of the Court. Standing primly before the microphone Professor Ramzin began in teacherish tones, "I am guilty. I do not know what to say in my defense," then spoke for three hours while everyone smoked...
...Soviet Prosecutor Nikolai Vassilievitch Krylenko. Last week in a 30-column statement which Moscow papers dutifully printed, Comrade Krylenko announced that he would put eight arrested persons on trial for conspiring with non-Bolshevik citizens to seize the State and to make one of the prisoners, a Professor Leonid Ramzin, president of a bourgeois Russian republic...
...disappointed U. S. astronomers went to bed early one evening last week. They had planned to sit up all night to watch the expected leonid meteor display, but fogs and rain in most localities made observing impossible. Watchers at New Orleans had several hours of clear sky, reported a fine display...
...Leonid meteors, advance guards of a main swarm which appears three times a century, should be looked for in the eastern part of the sky. The shower may last three or four nights. Dr. Fisher stated, and pictures will be taken at the observatory to determine the speed of the meteors and whether they are pieces of a live or dead planet. On November 16, 1929 about ten Leonids were counted during three of the early morning hours...