Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doughtiest of Soviet commanders in the actual front-line sector, likeliest to start the game of putting White Russians to the sword, is Red Russia's greatest cavalry commander, Comrade Semion Micheilovitch Budenny, fierce, resourceful, reckless. His wife, from his own wild Kuban steppes, galloped and fought at his side when the young Soviet Republic was death-grappling with Wrangel and Denikin...
...Ambassador at Moscow for transmission to the Chinese Government via the German Ambassador at Nanking the Soviet Government declared in part: ". . . While doing their utmost to prevent the crossing of the border by Soviet troops, the Soviet Government holds that the Chinese author ities must disarm the White guard detach ments and prevent all possible raids on Soviet territory by Chinese forces. Other wise the guilt of further complications caused by new raids will be entirely on the Nanking Government...
...education. That entails an expense which few Negresses can afford. Scholarships help them out. Belle Davis, judicial-minded executive secretary of the National Health Circle for Colored People, explained the southern lack of nurse training: "The neglect of health is not so much unfairness and prejudice of the white toward the Negro as it is a complete lack of interest. This condition exists not only among the Negroes but among the whites as well. The climate, of course, has something to do with it. The people there have never been taught the fundamental rules of health...
...walked an hour or so each day and occasionally ran about two and one-half miles. Their health remained excellent in all ways, leading New York's Eugene Floyd Du Bois, W. S. McClellan, H. J. Spencer and E. A. Falk, who studied them, to conclude that "in general white men, after they have become accustomed to the omission of other foods from their diet, may subsist on an exclusive meat diet in a temperate climate without damage to health or efficiency...
...impressive occasion. At the theatre, garbed in a belted shooting jacket which he said had been made in 1904 and in what one observer called "an indescribably peaked Tartar cap," Shaw greeted his guests with gusto and much pleased tugging at his flaring, white beard. He left, however, before the final curtain...