Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the War, Japanese troops occupied the northern part of the island for strategical purposes. Since that time Japan has never wholly relinquished her hold on the Russian possession. She is now trying to buy the northern half from the Soviet Government. (TIME, July...
...concession on northern Sakhalin from the Soviet authorities. Japanese aspirations were rendered transparent by the hostile comment of a large part of the Japanese press. The Soviet Government through its representative at Tokyo, Adolph A. Joffe, is trying to get Japan to settle with the Sinclair Co., in case Russian Sakhalin is ceded...
...Russian producer Danchenko announced that he will " modernize " Carmen. That is, he will retain the present musical form as much as possible, but will change the libretto to make it more realistic and conform it as far as possible to the original novel, Carmen, by Prosper M´erim...
Ivan Petrovitch Pavloff (Pavlov of Pawlow-take your choice of Russian transliterations), physiologist, Nobel Prizewinner and indubitably the most distinguished living scientist of Russia, sailed from New York for France, July 14, on the Majestic, after a series of mishaps that would furnish plot for a modern Comedy of Errors. He had been in America three weeks, but few, even in scientific circles, knew it until he was about to leave. Pavloff has no stomach for publicity. Scarcely had he set foot on our soil, in company with his son, Dr. Vladimir Pavloff, a professor of physics, who studied under...
Pavloff is 75 years old, tall, white-haired, majestic, active. The son of a priest of the Russian Church, he studied medicine at St. Petersburg, became a military surgeon, and in 1891 was appointed director of the Physiological Institute of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and later professor of physiology in the University of St. Petersburg. Pavloff founded a new school of physiologists, which became one of the most productive in the world, his researches dealing chiefly with the action of the heart, the secretions of the glands, and the digestive processes. Among his famous collaborators were Bechterew and Popielski...