Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Lofty. Almost illiterate when he came to the throne, speaking only Persian with a smattering of Russian, Reza Shah Pahlavi had a strong historical sense, pictured himself as a 20th-century Darius even when he was still only a cavalry colonel. When he became Minister of War in a Shah-less government (the former do-nothing Shah had moved to Paris), he acted more like the great Persian monarch. He imposed his will on hitherto independent fierce tribes, hanging dozens of warring sheiks, making other suspected local chieftains his permanent "guests." On a group of disobedient mullahs (Moslem priests...
...three times the annual revenue of Iran, is an 865-mile railroad line. No foreign country is to own any part of this line, no foreign loans are to be accepted. Conceived as a strategic railway, to enable the Iranians to repulse possible British invasion from the Persian Gulf, Russian invasion from the Turkomen Soviet Socialist Republic, the railroad line carefully avoids all Iran's big cities except Teheran, skirts round the Empire's more fertile districts, spans wide rivers, crosses mountain passes as high as 7,200 feet, bores into numerous tunnels, connects with no foreign lines...
...preserved mummy, this relic has traveled much since Bobola, a Jesuit teacher of noble Polish birth, was scourged, beaten, flayed and scalped by Cossacks, who put him to death near Pinsk in 1657. The nearby shrine in which he was buried was successively guarded by Jesuits, Greek Catholics and Russian Orthodox monks before Bobola's relics were taken to Polotsk. In Bolshevik hands they ended up in a medical museum in Moscow-although Roman Catholics were not then aware of their whereabouts. In 1922, within a month after he became Pope, Pius XI ordered a U. S. Jesuit, director...
...organic but nonliving substances. In this slow unfolding an observer would have been unable to say just where life began, unless he had concocted an arbitrary and superficial definition. Dr. Oparin has constructed a fairly complete picture of how it all happened, which he published two years ago in Russian. Published last week in the U. S. was The Origin of Life* a translation of Oparin's book made by Dr. Sergius Morgulis, professor of biochemistry at the University of Nebraska...
Three years ago pompous Manager Gatti-Casazza resigned, retired to Italy with his wife. As General Manager he was succeeded by Edward Johnson, a trim, smiling man of progressive ideas who promised a new era in operatic production. Among other heralds of the new day came slick-haired Russian Balletmaster George Balanchine. With his youthful American Ballet corps, Balanchine was expected to give Metropolitan audiences a taste of what up-to-date operatic ballet was really like...