Word: schmerinka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bustling undersecretaries to catch the regular 6:40 p.m. through express to Moscow. Behind the puffing locomotive M. Tchitcherin's first class wagon-lit rumbled smoothly. Then came a jangling, second class car, a rattlety-bang third class coach and seven careening fast freight vans. Speeding northwestward to Schmerinka, northeastward to Kiew and Kursk, and finally due north to Moscow (900 miles), the train drew in on the morning of the third day at 10:54 a. m.-one minute ahead of schedule. "Scoops." At Moscow M. Tchitcherin would have smiled awry had he known that the Hearst Sunday...
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