Word: russias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days. In 1752 Great Britain and its colonies (including America) adopted it, but by that time the accumulated error was eleven days. Turkey adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1917, Russia in 1918, Rumania and Serbia in 1919, Greece...
Ernita, a clear-eyed Texan, went Bolshevik during the War, emigrated to Russia, where Communists disappointed her, but Communism kept her faith. "A girl of the Diana type," Albertine was Jersey City bred, but attained Park Avenue because her husband was a clever window dresser. Albertine took lovers, but was circumspect. Regina had a good job as superintendent of a Washington hospital: she got the morphine habit. No one knew how or where she died. Rella was a farmer's daughter, and just the right age. When her literary uncle-by-marriage came along, she fell in love with...
...following figures, compiled by the National Student Federation, indicate the trend of student migrations: Canada 1,173. China 1,109. Japan 814. Philippines 804. Russia 504. England 369. Germany 360. Mexico 271. Porto Rico 250. India 208. Italy 203. Hawatt...
...present one another with wreaths. By this token a big, bearish Russian might have felt doubly honored last week in Manhattan. He received not only a floral wreath, but a lyre made of red and white carnations and inscribed "in the name of American musicians to this Orpheus of Russia." The famed, hulking Orpheus was Alexandre Constantinovitch Glazounov, now making his first visit to the U. S. and appearing last week as conductor of his own works...
...career and reputation kept pace from then on. He wrote much music swiftly, first inspired by Russian folklore, later by classical forms. In 1905 he was chosen to succeed Rimsky-Korsakov as director of the Imperial Conservatory of Music at St. Petersburg. In 1917, when most artists fled Russia, Glazounov stayed on, fought bravely to maintain the pre-Revolution standards of the newly named Leningrad State Conservatory which he heads today...