Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While in the U. S., Trotsky lived for nearly three months at No. 1522 Vyse Ave., the Bronx, New York City. With him were his wife (sister of Lev Borisovitch Kamenev) and his two small sons. He is said to have eked out a precarious livelihood on $15 a week, which he got for writing brilliant revolutionary articles in the Novy Mir, New York Russian language newspaper. It is possible, however, that Trotsky earned much more, for his coming was advertised widely among the radicals, who organized many a reception for him and, he, brilliant as always, made many...
...operation is relatively simple. Nor is it difficult in a hospital for women to get healthy ovaries for transplanting. Many perfectly fertile women must have their glands removed for one cause or another. The tactful surgeon can easily persuade them to dispose of their useless organs to a sister unhappy in a different way. The actual transfer of the glands (cutting of the ovaries from one woman and stitching them into another) should not take more than 30 seconds...
...Boston Herald's sister sheet, the evening Traveler, is graced with having on its staff, the greatest athlete who ever graduated from Boston Latin. In his final year at school, Frank Ryan played on no less than four major teams--football, hockey, baseball, and track, we think it was. Nor was he any mere substitute in these sports, a specialty drop kicker or a pinch hitter. Quite contrary, he captained three of the four teams on which he played...
Professor Sachs announces at the same time his gift to the Museum in memory of Norton's sister, Miss Grace Norton, of an Italian fourteenth century painting, "Mourning Over the Body of Christ...
This project, like its sister scheme of a Franco-English tunnel under the Channel, has long been mooted. According to U. S. engineers, it would be "child's play" to build it, owing chiefly to favorable submarine conditions, cheap electrical power for boring and a plentiful supply of skilled labor...