Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next year on returning from Paris where he had studied at the Sorbonne, Karpovitch was thrown in jail by the authorities because he was suspected of subversive activities. According to the Russian historian his experience was quite "Byronic," for "the jail was very romantic." After leading a "Byronic" life for a month, he was allowed to go free...
Discussing the organization of Russian universities, Karpovitch stated that one of the main ways for a student to make money was to take good lecture notes and sell them to his classmates for several rubles. As a result of this practice which was condoned by the professors, very few of the students took notes and "did not have their heads bent over notebooks...
...compared himself to the chief operator of a telephone switchboard who must accept responsibility for all the operators' "wrong numbers." He then went back to 1929, rehearsed as a confession the gist of his editorials publicly printed then. This seemed greatly to bore the judges. Russian quick-wits at once saw that Bukharin's "confession" of what he called last week the secret program of the conspirators was only a rehash of his public program of 1929, rejected then by Stalin, but amicably. "Our program," confessed the Heir of Lenin, "was greater freedom for the kulaks; greater freedom...
...years ago a Frenchified Russian, Dr. Serge Voronoff, and a Kansan who almost became Governor of his State, Dr. John Richard Brinkley, made fame & fortune by grafting monkey and goat glands into decrepit males. Later a Viennese, Dr. Eugen Steinach, finding gland grafts useless, got beneficial results by a small operation which prevented the gradual loss of male hormones, which make men virile. But the real advance in man's age-old search for virility began only: 1) when Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Germany, after treating 62,500 gallons of urine, succeeded in crystallizing one two-thousandths...
...Germans "the most important, and most admirable, and generally loyal, but least lovable of all our foreign-language race groups." Poles, everywhere happy & contented, "dream at night of planting wheat and cabbages," detest Communism and Fascism as they do their hereditary enemies Russia and Germany. Among the White Russians of Westbury, Long Island, Seabrook was surprised to discover that not all Russian emigrés are married to U. S. heiresses...