Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cannon's career took the couple all over the world. During her travels, Mrs. Cannon became enamoured with Peking's Temple of Heaven ("some things no amount of praise will spoil"), acquired two Russian icons by Italian artists, made friends with eminent scientists of myriad nationalities, including Russia's Pavlov. She swears that her foreign languages remain abysmal, that she never bothers with grammar. Asked whether she lectured to Cambridge on return, she answered, "Oh yes. I afflicted everybody...
...Russian delegation, headed by Alexandrof, rector of Leningrad, will visit Harvard in May to negotiate the details. Other members of his group have not been announced...
...Vleck, who visited scientific laboratories, was impressed by "the enormous number of able and hard-working people." Three thousand are enrolled in the five year physics course at the University of Moscow. Both Leontief and Lord feel that the Russian educators know more about us than we do about them...
Chief threat to such a happy ending, Ely emphasized, is Russian expansion in Asia and Africa-"for each new implantation of Communism helps it find again the purity of its younger days." Hence the prime task of the West is to keep Russia out of the underdeveloped nations by carrying out "a just and equitable distribution of Western wealth...
...Communist Whittaker (Witness) Chambers, 57, rusty now in a language he could read and write passably in his literary youth, signed up for an early-dawning TV course in elementary Russian offered by Washington's George Washington University...