Word: serf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stalin launched the Second Five-Year Plan which is now under way, says Mr. Lyons, by having the Soviet parliament adopt measures which "redefined Socialism to mean merely state monopoly of all branches of economy-a feudalistic serf 'socialism' undreamed of by socialist theorists and philosophers and agitators before the Soviet...
...need to cavil at the foresight of its architects who planned the stacks so that they are as accessible to the common Harvard student as the burial chamber of Cheops to the common Egyptian serf; and in Fine Arts le Professor Koehler will probably continue to compare the exterior dimensions of Widener to those of the Parthenon, unaware of the irony should his listeners be inclined to contrast their interiors...
...Dear Father Masaryk," as Prague papers like to call him, was the son of a one-time serf, an illiterate Slovak coachman on an imperial Habsburg estate. At 13 young Masaryk was ready but too young to enter a teacher's training school. He worked for a blacksmith for a while, then went on with his schooling, supporting himself by tutoring. At 26 he earned a Ph.D. in Vienna...
Stalin: Certainly, Peter the Great did much ... to create and strengthen a national government of landlords and traders ... at the cost of the serf, the peasantry, who were thrice skinned...
...must tell you that a woman's body does not belong to her husband. It is her own property, not his. . . . She can leave her husband by her own will . . . and can decide whether and when to bear children. . . . She is a citizen, not a serf...