Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left hand of the famed Peacock Throne* of Persia. On the right stood high Persian dignitaries-most of them Moslems, some Christians. All had assembled for the coronation of a man who five years ago was a mere bandit, Reza Pahlavi, marauding in Persia at the head of some Russian Cossacks who would not stop fighting when their original master, the Tsar, was executed...
...Volga Boatman. Cecil B. DeMille, whose name has become synonymous with ridiculous excesses in bathtubs and flappers, has turned to Russia. He has taken the seething horrors of the Russian Revolution and turned them into a pale pink romance that will give you the fidgets. The Boatman of the title falls in love with the Princess, and the Princess falls foul of the wicked soldiers. The picture is often rescued by sets and photography of startling beauty...
...Some recent discoveries," continued the archaeologist, "in fact, the ones on which I lectured at the Fogg Museum, have been made in Northern China by a Russian, Colonel Kozlov. These discoveries consist of a number of early tombs all dating from about the first century before our era which contained an enormous number of textiles in a truly remarkable state of preservation." Professor Pelliot then went on to describe the tombs more in detail...
...three elements, nature study, labor activity, and sociology," said Dr. Lloyd Storr-Best in his talk on Education in Soviet Russia at the Phillips Brooks House last night. Dr. Storr-Best, who has been carrying on investigations in Russia for the British Government, went on to say, "Russian children are taught agriculture and the phenomena of every day natural life in addition to the problems of labor and of their own social relations...
...keynote of the present Russian system is teamwork. In everything they do, the children are taught to work with each other, and also to work out their own problems as far as possible. They plan and organize their own course of study, both in its broad outline and smaller details, and take care of all the business of the school themselves...