Word: petrovich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, so trained his dog that he had only to ring a bell to make its mouth water. The governments of Europe hope to make their citizens' flight to safety just as automatic when the air-raid sirens wail...
...first thing that Ivan Petrovich remembered, the first thing in all his life, was the warm sleek side of a sow, the fat rich smell of her, and the squeaks of the little piglet he'd pushed away to make room for him, and the huge woman that tore him away from the sleek warm sow and hit him and said, 'You little sookin sin' (son-of-a-bitch), and something about piglets being money and babies a devil's own nuisance." The next thing Ivan remembered was his mother killing his father with...
...months ago was Commissar for State Grain and Livestock Farms for the entire Soviet Union, has now been jailed on charges that he ordered Soviet scientists to castrate breeding bulls and inoculate cattle with cholera germs. Finally White Russia's recently executed Red Army commander, General Ieronim Petrovich Uborevich, was described last week as having been "little short of a fiend incarnate," while the railways, textile mills and collective farms of White Russia were reported "infested with Fascist spies and wreckers...
General leronim Petrovich Uborevich, removed two days earlier as Red Army commander in the district of White Russia...
General Robert Petrovich Eideman, recently removed as head of training of army reservists in aviation and chemical warfare...