Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many another delicacy, too numerous to mention, was printed on the gilt menus, while the Zakouska, Russian equivalent for hors d'ouevres, consisted of everything from an olive to caviar, not excepting sterletes sigi-a rare and costly fish...
Seeniaya Ptitza. French entertainment may come and French entertainment may go, but the Russians go on forever. And for all that Manhattan cares, this particular Russian troupe can go on back to Leningrad and stay there. They delivered pale entertainment fashioned precisely on the lines of the Chauve Souris. A certain element of soothing saturnine melody they delivered, very little humor and no novelty...
Illiteracy, like all evils, is sometimes a blessing. So thinks the Russian Ministry of Education, at all events. Of late the Ministry took the Russian alphabet in hand, examined it for superfluous members, pruned here, excised there, threw five letters out bodily, published a new, curtailed alphabet which shortens the written Russian language by one-twelfth and makes its spelling "twice as logical." It was pointed out that had not illiteracy abounded in Russia, the Ministry would have encountered the same difficulty faced by the late Theodore Roosevelt
...changes should effect a saving about four years out of the education every Russian child and they reduce the cost of printing in Russia something like 15 million dollars a year...
...question was raised in the Ministry of Education of introducing the Roman alphabet, which is the one we use in writing English, instead of the modified Greek character in which Russian has always been written. Psychologists claim that the Roman small letters, with their projections above and below the line, present a contour more readily grasped by the eye than the 'solid blocks of Russian lower case characters. Thus MAJILHHK which