Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story amounts to the candid, cluttered journal of Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, a young man born in Japan of Russian-Scotch-Spanish-Italian-English-Finnish-Swedish ancestry. He is an Oxford intellectual, serious-minded, he feels, but is engaged for the present with a Major Percy Beastly on a mission to Manchuria for the British War Office. In the life of Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, wars and missions are very unimportant indeed: He spends a lot of time thinking about Life and Death, writing or making jokes about them. Nothing is very important...
...Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeléeff, Russian chemist, arranged all the elements in groups that show the mathematical progression of their atomic weights, predicted the existence of undiscovered elements which subsequent research found. Similarly, there was a square in the chemical crossword puzzle for radium, the properties of which were known before Madame Curie obtained that metal in a free state...
After months of negotiations, a Franco-Russian commission which was convened in Paris to find a way of reading some meaning into Russian recognition by France, ended its words, vacated its chairs, dispersed...
...Russian bonds are held by a large number of French citizens and it is particularly difficult for any French Government, no matter how willing, to accept any arrangement with .Russia that does not eventually aim at repayment of these debts...
Last week saw knights and bishops, queens and pawns go down again before master chess minds, with the close of the International Chess Masters' Tournament at Marienbad, Czecho-Slovakia, following the tournament at Baden-Baden (TIME, May 25). Alekhine, the Russian wizard who won at Baden-Baden, did not participate...