Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific, the elongated Republic of Chile runs like a rind along the western coast of South America from the tropics to Cape Horn. Averaging only about 125 miles in width, the country is so long (2,661 miles) that, if draped across Europe, it would stretch from Moscow to Madrid. To compensate for its unwieldy shape, nature has given it a variety of riches: underneath its parched yellow soil in the desolate northern region lie the world's most valuable deposits of nitrate and the second largest known deposits of copper; its pleasant, well-watered, fertile central area, where...
...With the fall of Barcelona, for years the most poisonous anti-Christian centre in the world, the war in Spain approaches its conclusion. No one save those whose loyalty to Moscow is certain will regret the end of the conflict. . . . Making Barcelona, formerly the centre of anarchism and antiChrist, the capital of a Christian nation will do much to restore sanity to the world...
...While Tenor Ivan Kozlovsky and Basso V. Y. Droviannikov sang their lines in Rigoletto at Moscow's famed Bolshoi Theatre, Tenor Kozlovsky, noted for his freakishly large range, suddenly began to sing bass. Surprised, annoyed, but not to be outdone, Droviannikov lifted himself into a strangled tenor. Backstage, later, the two singers had to be separated by stagehands. The Soviet All-Union Committee on Art branded the ruckus as inexcusable "naughtiness," warned all singers to stay in their own range...
...short-wave bands, Germany's most galling intruder is Moscow, which, by some underground means the Gestapo has not yet uncovered, gets German news and broadcasts it back to Germany almost as soon as it happens. In spite of all the Reich's counteracting efforts, many Germans can and do learn what goes...
...Ukraine (meaning borderland) dates back to the 16th Century when thousands of "Little Russian" or Ukrainian fugitives fled from Poland to the banks of the Dnepr and there established the State of Dnepr Cossacks. Exasperated by successive Polish invasions, they finally appealed to Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich at Moscow for protection and placed themselves under his sovereignty. The Cossack nobility fused with the Russian nobility, the Ukrainian peasantry soon became an assimilated part of the Russian peasantry and for nearly 300 years there was little difference between the Little Russians of the Ukraine and the Great Russians or Muscovites...