Word: rail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great and rationally truculent: 1) Fallen War Lord Trotsky; 2) Onetime Soviet Ambassador to Paris Christian Rakovsky; 3) Leading Soviet Propagandist Karl Radek. These and their immediate followers were sent away to individual exile in separate, widely dispersed towns of Asiatic Russia. Trotsky was scheduled to speed by rail from Moscow across European Russia, traverse the broad Volga, proceed again by rail through the steppes of Kirghiz and to the end of the line in the mountains of Turkestan. Thence he would pass by caravan over more mountains and steppes to remote Vyernyi, topping the uplands of Semirechensk, and distant...
...useless to attempt to drive the fire trucks from Fort Smith to Subiaco. The distance is 50 miles and the roads bad. A five-mile stretch ust west of Paris was impossible. So the firemen loaded their trucks on railroad cars and shipped them by rail to Subiaco. They wasted no time. But when they arrived at the monastery they found little to do other than to look at the bleak walls, the shivering students and monks...
...servers were full of dust, not cork, that all the life boats sank as soon as they were launched. He watched a few deckhands trying to attach the hose which was so old and frail that it broke in their hands. There was a whining report as the port rail of the after deck collapsed and then the screams of children and women who soon blackened in the heat. A little boy climbed the flag pole, trying to get out of the flames. The flag pole broke and the little boy was pitched into the bonfire where he burned...
...nationalism, which is the basis of the anti foreign movement, is becoming the basis of a patriotism which demands the union and preservation of the Chinese people. The political significance of this Nationalist movement is great There is opposition to the foreign control of post office, customs, rail ways, and revenues, urgent demand for the abolition of the existing unequal treaties with the Great Powers, for the abandonment of concessions, legations, foreign courts, and consular jurisdiction: and a zealous effort to curb the colonial expansion of the imperialistic powers...
...party will sail from New York on June 18 on board the S. S. Cleveland, proceeding straight to Cherbourg, and from there by rail to Paris, where some time will be spent in sight seeing. The battle fields of France will be studied and the influence of their topography on the victories of the allies in the last war. Especial attention will be paid to the region around the Paris basin, where Professor Davis, one of Harvard's best known geologists, did considerable work on erosion...