Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is not enough. Already he admits he intends to bring back books--RUSSIAN BOOKS! For WIDENER LIBRARY! The Harvard Library WANTS THESE BOOK! It HAS TO HAVE these books because the course will REQUIRE A READING KNOWLEDGE OF RUSSIAN...
Though he could find no high Syrian prelates willing to dabble with him in muddied church waters, Archimandrite David lined up three sympathetic Russian bishops whose spiritual powers were, after all, as efficacious as those of any other Orthodox churchmen. In St. George's Church last week these, with the aid of four Orthodox priests, consecrated Samuel David. With his gilt-&-scarlet crown firmly on his swart head, Archbishop David thereupon waited for the Patriarch of Antioch to grant him jurisdiction, to which he felt canonically entitled. Failing that, a schism was forecast among confused U. S. Syrians...
...Catatumbo Lights," after the Catatumbo River, which rises in Colombia and empties into Venezuela's saltish Lake Maracaibo (see map p. 68). Early explorers thought the Catatumbo Lights might be similar to the "Perpetual Fires" at Baku, where burning natural gas seepage illuminated the discovery of that fabulous Russian oil field. Their guess was a scientific error. But the Catatumbo Lights did illuminate the discovery of another major source of the world...
...made misfortunes seem momentarily on the mend. The pretty head nurse knows his books and admires them. Thanks to her personal influence with the Crown Prince, he is transferred to a better job, with an army corps that is leaving for the comparative comfort and quiet of the Russian front. The nurse and Lieutenant Kroysing fall in love, and when she promises to marry him he forswears his vengeance on his brother's murderers. They have one night together before a French airman's bomb blots out Kroysing. Bertin, nearly all his friends dead, sets...
...antlike Manhattan broker finds his Russian wife's family a strangely charming incubus; upset and then educated by their grasshopper example, he discovers how much he loves his wife...