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Word: makarikha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the forest wilderness, where the elk drinks from the secret brooks and from ageless marshes the bittern boom, comes Uvadiev, with Favorov an engineer and Suzanne a chemist, to oversee the building of a great paper-pulp factory at Makarikha on the river Sot. Lost, they put up over night at the secret hermitage of Meleti, full of weird monks full of weird ideas. Hostile to Soviet innovations, they expound their general attitude at endless fantastic conversational length?"our Lord has not only chastized this earth with fools, he has afflicted it also with the wise." Wiseman Uvadiev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stink or Swim | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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