Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This creature is one Alexander Dvorjanin Zubkov, 27, a Russian adventurer of no profession who sensationally wooed and married, last fall (TIME, Nov. 28), the Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe, 61, rich and eccentric sister of one-time Kaiser Wilhelm...
...April seventh the League of Nations model Assembly at Amherst, representing 20 New England colleges, endorsed the recent Russian proposal for immediate and complete disarmament. The 225 delegates, voting by nations as in the League Assembly at Geneva, supported the Russian resolution by the close vote of 29 to 26. In addition, they endorsed by large majorities the resolutions for disarmament and tariff reduction which have been introduced at Geneva. Sir Herbert Ames and Manley O. Hudson addressed the gathering and plans were laid for another assembly next year...
...Russian resolution which was introduced in Russian by Miss Stella Eskin of Smith College, head of the Soviet observers, provides among other things for: the dissolution of all land, sea, and air forces: the abolition of military service, either compulsory, voluntary, or recruited; the scrapping of military plants; the prohibition of military propaganda; and the ratification of general conventions for arbitration...
...methods in Australia's goldfields. Then, aged 25, he advised on mines and railroads for the late Emperor Kwang-Hsü of China. He introduced U. S. methods to Kyshtym in South Russia, making an oldtime estate of the Romanovs' into a mining centre where young Russian engineers soon pilgrimaged to complete their education. Italy engaged Engineer Hoover one summer to prospect in the Alps for the iron old Romans must have used for their swords.* Engineer Hoover and his brother, Theodore Jesse Hoover (who lives in Swanton, Calif.), perfected and installed a method for recovering zinc from...
Uncontradicted assertion: "Insofar as I could see [the morals of Russian women] are no worse than the morals of women anywhere else in the world...