Word: russias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither here nor abroad were there any pandemic outbreaks of disease last year, and in no country with a modern public health organization did pestilences spread. India continues to harbor bubonic plague, as do French Indo-China, China, Algeria, Madagascar, Nigeria, Siam, Argentina, Ecuador, South Africa, Greece, Russia. Two people in California, however, caught bubonic plague last year-from ground squirrels...
Died. Dr. Alexander Alexandrovitch Maximow, 54, famed anatomist, blood & tissue specialist of the University of Chicago (since 1922), onetime member of the Imperial Military Academy of Medicine in Petrograd, whose escape from Bolshevist Russia with his wife and sister ended in a flight on a smugglers' sled across the Gulf of Finland; of heart disease; in Chicago...
...Story. Much as he liked his German guards and his fellow Russian prisoners, Grischa had had enough of prison camp. True, he had heard that Russia was done for and the War near an end-it was blustery March of 1917-but enough was enough, and he yearned Eastward toward his wife and little girl. His monotonous duty was to pile timber in freight cars bound for the front. At the end of one carload he neatly constructed a cavity for himself, and that night slipped out of the bunk house. Under cover of his comrades' merrymaking he crunched...
...Significance. War novels by the gross have detailed the lice, the mud, the oaths, on "Flanders Field." The present volume is distinctive in vivifying that other, more mysterious, no-man's-land east of Germany, west of Russia. But far more than this, The Case of Sergeant Grischa is a powerful indictment of autocratic statecraft, a pageant of heterogeneous border peoples, and a human document of uncanny understanding. The jocund vitality which lured Grischa to mad escape is no less vivid than his fatalistic reluctance to escape again. Insignificant "case," Grischa is the symbol that rouses the interest...
...Sinclair Lewis, who before her marriage to the well-known author was Dorothy Thompson, a distinguished foreign correspondent for American newspaper, will speak on "The New Russia" at the Community Church, 6 Byron Street, Boston, at 8 o'clock this evening...