Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education dates from 1920 and the last five years has been a period of steady advance. We are now in the old world, the new world has again advanced westward", declared Mr. Scott Nearing in speaking to the members of the Liberal Club yesterday on education in the Soviet government...
...Russia is today the most scientific country in the world and the educational system there is fundamentally different from that of any other nation. The basic change which the Soviet government has effected is the proletarianizing of education'. In Russia, children of the well to do bourgeoise and aristocrats are no longer given a better opportunity of acquiring an education as is still the case in Harvard, Columbia and the other old and established universities of this country. In fact whenever it is necessary to make a choice in admission to a higher educational institution, students of the bourgeoise...
...intent on waging class war over cups, and saucers, the Evening Standard made reply to its contemporary. It uncarthed a dinner given two weeks ago by the Soviet delegation in London: and labelled it a feast of Lucullus. With watering mouth and rising temperature, the author of the reply listed the vintages arrayed before the Russians: Sauterne, claret, champagne port, brandy, and vodka. It drew the moral that a society tea is but a quick lunch beside a good, luscious, Bolsheviki spread...
Late and unsubstantiated despatches from Moscow reported that Chang's troops had seized "numerous additional Soviet workers and officials at Harbin." Allegedly Chang imposed a complete censorship upon the local Soviet newspapers, which appeared "with big blank white pages" in protest...
...human voice is the foundation of all music. In the U. S., the human voice is more than this-it is the foundation of a great and prosperous trade. Behind the famous opera stars and song recitalists (the Rothschilds, the Astorbilts of their profession) there is a vast soviet of vocal students, church sopranos, ballad singers, cabaret songsters, 50,000 professional singers, male and female, and 250,000 assorted aspirants. Until recently the vocal industry was without a trade journal, but a fortnight ago the first issue of Singing, The Voice Magazine (Alfred Human,* Editor) appeared on the newsstands...