Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiet has been the official tongue about the proceedings of the Anglo-Russian parley in London (TIME, Apr. 28, May 19, June 16) that many were the people who had almost forgotten its existence...
...rumor was spread that deliberations between the British holders of Russian bonds and the Soviet, delegates had reached an impasse. No reliable details were made public...
Declining to countenance the notes sent by the Powers to the Chinese Government with reference to the recent Sino-Russian agreement over the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, June 9, et seq.), the Chinese and Russians selected their quotas for the Directorate of the railway...
...Russian General of recent military fame, but a Russian explorer who hunted about in the Arctic Ocean for this mysterious land in 1921, gave the island its name. He had heard about it from natives of the Siberian coast. He did not find it, however. It was probably first sighted in 1849. It has always tempted the adventurous American mariner. A U. S. whaler cruised its southern shore in 1867, and it was explored in 1881 by Capt. Hooper, who took possession of it for the U. S. and named it New Columbia...
...democrats of the world resume normal relations, or at least commercial relations, with the Bolsheviki, Europe will not have been Bolshevized, but rather the Bolsheviki will have become transformed. On the day when Soviet diplomats are received at Paris and Washington, they will not impose on their colleagues the Russian blouse; they will be the most faithful propagandists of the dinner jacket...