Word: za
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That "rationalization" (sternly applied coordination) is a crying need in Russia. every Russian knows. Horrible-example-of-last-week was an official announcement in the Government organ Za Industri-alizatsia! ("For Industrialization!") that the "World's Largest Copper Plant" on the shores of Lake Balkhazh (2,000 mi. from Moscow in the howling depths of Asia) will have to be "indefinitely conserved" (abandoned...
Officially the Soviet newspaper Za Indistrializatsia! ("For Industrialization! ) said of Cheliabinsk...
...musical, but he was very enthusiastic. Chaliapin, I must say, made a wonderful host, drinking a toast to each one of his guests, be ginning of course with the Prince. The toast was in Russian . . . ended with the two meaningless words, in which every body joined - 'Za-Za!' I talked a good deal to the Prince that evening, telling him all sorts of jokes, which he enjoyed very much. ... To think that there was the future King of England, sitting in the midst of people who have come from humble origin, even though they have attained the highest...