Word: siberias
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...Eastern neighbors, have lately been piecing information together-from agents, from returned Japanese P.W.s, occasionally even from clues dropped at sake parties by members of Tokyo's normally close-mouthed Soviet diplomatic mission itself. Gist of this information: the U.S.S.R. has assembled a massive military striking force in Siberia, trained and equipped for offensive operations. They might well be intended for use against Japan and, possibly, Alaska. Equally important, the Russians have been patching up their industrial weakness in this area by constructing a network of tank factories, airplane and locomotive plants, shipyards, steel mills and oil refineries...
...still come and get a free education. Liebenau said. In Eastern Germany, however, students still disappear, he stated, "and that is why some refer to the Soviet some as the 'biggest country on earth'; it begins at the river Elbe and a considerable number of its inhabitants live in Siberia...
...Language students at Columbia University this year will have their choice of three new tongue-twisters. In addition to such old favorites as Syriac (ancient Mesopotamia), Samoyed (Siberia) and Akkadian (ancient Babylon), Columbia is adding Avestan, the language of Zoroaster; Kurdish, spoken by the wandering Kurds of Turkey, Iraq and Iran; and Tagalog, a native language of the Philippines. Total languages now available: 50. ¶ After five years of experimenting, Harvard finally put its General Education "core curriculum" into practice. From now on, each student must take at least one specially designed course in the humanities and the social...
...Russian P.W. friends, who are, I presume, in Siberia now: "Buddy, it's cold here...
Groton, the Electric Boat Co. sealed off a special section of their yard and nicknamed it "Siberia." There, in guarded isolation, the Navy's shipbuilders and scientists started putting together a wooden mock-up of the atomic...