Word: russias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cynics suggested that Russia and the U. S. might be satisfied by exchanging the higher-ups in their ship industries...
...Soviet Russia is one of the countries which glow translucently on an electrically-lighted earth globe in the office of a man in Cleveland. The man is not vain, but last week he looked with kindling pride at a point on the globe 270 miles east of Moscow, near Nishni Novgorod and between the Oka and Volga rivers. On that point he has pledged himself to build in the short space of 15 months a wholly new city for 25,000 Russians. The Soviet Government has agreed to pay him for his work $50,000,000-in dollars, in Cleveland...
...Mantell's statement proves an evident desire by interested imperialist circles to ruin the existing possibility of a peaceful settlement of the conflict between Russia and China and to make our relations with China more acute...
William Hesketh Lever was born in Bolton, Lancashire in a three-story brick building the natural unloveliness of which was later emphasized by the addition of an extremely inappropriate bay-window. His earliest childhood recollection (1854) was the burning in effigy of Emperor Nicholas of Russia, for at that time the Crimean Wrar was going on and it appeared extremely important that the Russians should not take Constantinople. His father, James Lever, had risen from a grocer's apprentice to a retail and finally to a wholesale grocer. The family was solvent rather than affluent and William's boyhood allowance...
News. The only headlines were the names of the places from whence the "freshest advices," had come. For many years Printer Parkes devoted his front pages to despatches from England, Russia, France. Fortunate were subscribers if they found a foreign September despatch the following February. But colonists cared little how stale the news so long as it was interesting...