Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Russia has passed out of existence. Such appears to be the case from the notice issued by the Russian postal authorities saying that the official name of the country is the "Union of Socialist Soviet Republics", which is to be abbreviated to "Ussr". They recommend that mall for Russia be so addressed...
...year's prize editorial may be a repeater on President Coolidge. The vice-presidential nominee is hardly a "surprise". But so long as the American political machine is capable of producing nothing more interesting than its present output, the great American public will have to get its excitement from Russian revolutions. Nevertheless, this method of America's is probably the very best way to get rich, for revolutions and political kaleidoscopes cost much money. Perhaps this is why the Coolidge administration--such as it is has proved so popular...
...hearts of the four Bolshevik delegates, in London to negotiate a settlement of Anglo-Russian differences, fluttered when they were commanded to attend a levee in St. James Palace. Did they refuse...
...Wall, of Sheffield University, England, applied for patents on a "means of transmitting electrical energy in any direction without the use of intermediate transmission wires," in which the British authorities are also said to be interested. Two other Englishmen, Prior and Raffe, have similar devices. Grammachikov, a Russian, has invented a ray that is favorably considered in the Soviet war offices. The German Government is reported to have a ray machine that last year brought down 13 French planes in Bavaria (hushed up but later admitted by the French). John H. Hamill, British engineer, said to represent the German scientist...
WINE OF FURY?Leigh Rogers? Knopf ($2.50). Against the black and bloody canvas of the Russian Revolution, this story rises sombre and of more than usual interest. The author, a young American who has lived some years in Russia, has caught all the swift horror of those cataclysmic days, has limned his plot against a background that rings true. Rasputin moves evilly through the picture, and Kerensky, Lenin, the dreaded Cheka are delineated with more than a modicum of truth. It is a colorful, kaleidescopic tale, ranging from scenes among the simple, suffering peasants to all the lavish splendor...