Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used as targets for anti-aircraft gunners and pursuit pilots. First developed in California as a Denny hobby, the miniature (8 ft. by 12 ft.), gasoline-driven robots need no pilots, can fly at 7,000 to 8,000 feet for 30 minutes. Until the planes are delivered next summer, practicing gunners must continue to get along with colored streamers towed behind full-sized craft...
...costliest purge to date, for which he provided the evidence, the victims and the executioners. Last week a small, back-page notice in Izvestia informed Russians that Comrade Yezhov had been relieved of his post at his own request, would be superseded by Laurentius Pavlovich Beria, until last summer head of the political police in the Transcaucasus, since then Yezhov's assistant...
...Georgian peasant like Stalin, Beria in 1917, when still a student joined the Georgian Communist Party, then presided over by Stalin. Until last summer all his work was in the Transcaucasian republics, especially Georgia, where he headed the secret police for 16 years. He is known as the "Stalin of the Caucasus." Now 39, he is one of several younger officials recently given high government posts which the oft-purged older generation of Bolsheviks is apparently either incompetent or afraid to fill...
...that the clean air, the snowy winters with bright skies, the flood of summer sunlight reflecting off the sea, the red barns and white cottages and dry-shingled wharf shacks wash and burn the Thomas Kings and Tom Baileys until they are scraped down to the "cord," leaving their inner texture bare for all to see. There is not that covering of subtlety and finesse which enables people to deceive one another, to appear insincere, to hide true thoughts. But the character of these simple people is so often invisible to us because of this very lack of surface adornment...
...whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor," the Vagabond gets one definite mental picture, while you may get an entirely different impression. Vag's mental picture of tents is always biased by a very rainy camping trip last summer. When Vag hears of lents, it has just got to be raining. To some, however, tents may always mean armies or something...