Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a minimum of new building which we cannot go below. Our fleet is very inferior to the Italian fleet. Germany is authorized to own a fairly important fleet and is not limited as to new building. We must take account of this and also of the Russian fleet...
...Bucharest, one Duben Danailoff, Bulgarian journalist, was called upon to address a polygot gathering. He began, in Rumanian, continued successively in French, Serbian, Greek, Turkish, German, Hebrew, Russian, Bulgarian...
...books as owing from Russia. It is the one item on which it is improbable that much if anything will ever be paid. The debt was incurred for war purposes by the Tsarist and Kerensky regimes. When the Kerensky regime went under in November, 1917, most of the Russian money in this country was deposited with the National City Bank of New York. Certain amounts were added to this deposit; and, finally, with the U. S. Treasury's acquiescence, about $76,000,000 worth of Russian debts to individuals and corporations in this country were paid off. The balance...
Author Gorky, Russian realist, feels beneath the surface of an episode for its obscure, its real causes. To him, reason is no sinew flexing and supporting life, but a scalpel for cutting into it. That he makes his most satisfactory discoveries among abnormal patients is not surprising in a man who experimented on himself as a boy by lying beneath freight trains...
Died. Mme. George Bakhmetev, formerly Miss Mary Beale of Washington, wife of onetime Russian Ambassador to the U. S., daughter of General Edward F. Beale, onetime U. S. Minister to the Court of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria Hungary; in Paris...