Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Toboga Island-the Achilles' heel of Panama Canal. (P. 5.) Minds that list Maraschino, well-known cherry, as a Premier of Russia...
...Economic Life of Moscow, has resolved, in the interest of protecting domestic electrical industry, to prohibit the importation of all kinds of electrical materials. ¶The American Express Company announced that, in view of the improved Soviet banking facilities, their money orders will now be made payable in Russia...
...there ever was a time when the insecurity of an education based upon success in the preceding generation was apparent, it is now. Children educated in pre-war Russia upon such a scheme would be, and are, helpless in revolutionary Russia. The only education which could conceivably be valuable in a period of violent change would be an education which enabled the individual to so far free himself from the immediate prospect as to orient himself and measure tendencies and probabilities. To train for nothing but success in the present business world is to invite intellectual bankruptcy. There were...
...reorganization of the court system of Soviet Russia, according to the latest reports from Moscow, abolishes the special workmen's tribunals set up in the early days of the Revolution, and also does away with the Cheka, the most notorious of the terrorist institutions for enforcing Communist dictatorship...
...Newcomb, having failed in an " intelligence test to determine their knowledge of every day subjects," instituted a similar examination of 23 members of the Faculty. The results were discouraging. Al Jolson was found to be a wrestling champion; sequins were fish; Maraschino, well-known cherry, was a premier of Russia; and Filet Mignon was an opera by Puccini. It is understood that intelligence is not a popular subject at the college...