Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Security. Having smothered the Russian disarmament scare, the Preparatory Commission for Disarmament proceeded, last week, to the routine business of creating a new subordinate body: The Arbitration and Security Commission...
This was composed of exactly the same members as the parent Disarmament Commission, except that the Russian and U. S. Delegates announced themselves unable to participate. Comrade Litvinov finally consented to sit as an "observer"; but the U. S. Delegate, Hugh R. Wilson, U. S. Minister to Switzerland, had inflexible instructions from Washington...
...Buenos Aires 32 small statues stood upon a polished piece of wood. Sixteen of them were white; behind these sat a middle-aged Cuban, Jose Raul Capablanca, chess champion of the world. Behind the other 16, which were black, sat Alexander Alekhine, a Russian nobleman, who, for a prize of $10,000 offered by the Argentines, wished to beat the champion. A crowd surrounded the two men. The voices in the crowd became a whisper, then a silence...
...queens pranced among them with precise cruelty. The music to which they moved grew faint and there were long periods in which the figurines stood still and the two men stared at the board with a contemplative fury. Finally, after 32 moves, Capablanca made a gesture of concession; the Russian nobleman, using a Queen's Defense, had won the first game in the series...
...played with a Queen's Gambit and most of them were drawn; but Capablanca won the 7th and the 29th, Alekhine the 11th, 12th and 32nd. Last week the two men sat down to play the 34th game. Capablanca, with the score 5-3 against him, looked sulky. The Russian, with one game to win, looked meditative & nervous...