Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Bernard Lipman's family was one of the relatively few Russian Jewish families permitted to live in Russia proper. (Most U. S. Jews who call themselves "Russian" were born in Polish or Lithuanian districts...
...Meier-Graefe's book, to be exact, is not a biography in the classic sense of the word. To put the matter generally, it is the attempt of an astute and typically German mind to understand and to some extent lay bare a notice and typically Russian mind. And the attempt is singularly successful. From the very nature of the works with which he has to deal, a mere investigation and discussion of what may be called the facts of the novels--their construction, their action, even their dramatic quality--however painstaking and exact it might be, would...
...Jazz is characteristic of America", said Leon Theremin; Russian scientist, professor in the Physico-Technical Institute of Leningrad, Russia, and inventor of the ether-wave music instrument. "Jazz is very interesting. It has had an influence on music and I believe that in the future it will have a greater influence, especially from the standpoint of new soundings...
...Harriman proceeded to have a good time in the shipping industry. This, he asserted to be ". . . the most important matter connected with the growth and well-being of the United States. . . ." Besides shipping, his financial attachments include railroads, banking, the American Railway Express Co., Wright Aeronautical Corporation, the American Russian Chamber of Commerce. All of these he regards seriously though he speaks of them less frequently and less pompously than of his boating. In fact, William Averell Harriman is serious about almost everything he does. He is vigilant over a great boys' club in Manhattan slums; his farm...
...Russian Coal to Boston. Boston is close to 5,000 ship miles from the Don coal basin of Russia; Boston is about 300 miles from the anthracite coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, about 600 from the bituminous deposits of Western Pennsylvania and of West Virginia. Yet the difference between production and shipping costs is enough for Boston to buy a shipment of coal from Russia...