Word: siberias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody sees that Generalissimus Chiang Kai-Shek look not too as a Chinese. Mr. Svaricek, postman of Brtnice, whos was 1915-20 at Russia and Siberia . . . declared that Chiang Kai-Shek was born in Moravia country here. His war companion, Mr. Navratil, Businessman of Jaromĕřice and Roky-tna . . . was, they say, with present Chiang Kai-Shek going to school...
...three days southern Britain lay hushed in the grip of one of the worst fogs in the memory of any living Londoner. Then a cold front from Siberia swept down and blew it away...
...neck. In the army he began to write, still under Rousseau's influence and partly in enthusiasm for Laurence Sterne. In 1852 Tolstoy's Childhood, written in camp, excited the reading public in Moscow and won the praise of Turgenev and of Dostoevsky*-then in exile in Siberia...
Hazard, who was graduated from the Law School here in 1934, was an advisor to Justice Jackson at the Nuremburg trials and served as a guide to Henry Wallace on an outing to Siberia...
...Arctic-conscious U.S. Army has to keep the Frozen North frozen. The reason: beneath much of Alaska, as in other Arctic lands, lies a thick layer of "permafrost," or permanently frozen ground. It is hard and firm, but, as Russians discovered in Siberia long ago, even a trickle of heat can turn it to slithery muck. Roads and airport runways, absorbing summer sun, get as squashy as cranberry bogs. In winter, the warmth of a heated building may seep into the permafrost, allowing floors to sink and walls to wobble drunkenly. Many Alaskan villages, built in defiance of permafrost, look...