Word: siberias
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...born 57 years ago in the Ukraine of peasant parents so prosperous that today in Russia they would be exterminated as kulaks. At only 19, this brilliant little Jew was already in the custody of Tsarist police as a revolutionist of mark. Bronstein's various escapes from Siberia were always theatrically brilliant, in contrast to the methodical escapes at the same period of Djhugashvili who is now called Stalin. Bronstein, when Tsarist Russia finally got too hot for him, escaped on a forged passport in which he whimsically gave himself the name of his last jailer, "Trotsky...
...Comrade Litvinoff refused to sign. Moreover, last week when a foreigner was sentenced to death for the first time in the history of Soviet propaganda trials (TIME, Aug. 31), protests by the German Embassy in behalf of this foreigner (a German engineer named Stickling obscurely condemned for "sabotage" in Siberia) were handed back by Comrade Litvinoff although later accepted...
...Stephen Cartright returned from Siberia a hero and re-entered Carnegie Tech. He was resuming the study of metallurgical engineering which he had abandoned to join the army. He carried a lump on his head where a pistol butt wielded by a Bolshevik had landed. Vacationing from College three years later, Veteran Cartright collapsed. On recovering consciousness he learned that he was incurably blind and deaf...
...dominant note in his poetry is loneliness and isolation, sometimes symbolized by thought of distant places, the winds blowing over the plains of Siberia or Montana, sometimes by thoughts of Angkor Wat, "the lost cities, deep in the dead dark, no thought, no memory," sometimes by evocations of the end of history, when only birds will "sob for the time of man," sometimes by a vision of utter desolation...
Died. Edwin Ross Thomas, 85, pioneer automobile builder whose "Thomas Flyer'' won the 1908 New York-Paris race (via Siberia) in 170 days; in Buffalo...