Word: petrograd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company chose for its dramatic locale a rainswept bit of Maine seacoast where the incessant downpour drove a bedraggled housewife insane, sent her out to follow the fancied ghost of a long-dead lover. Actors from Dayton, Ohio, were concerned with Zanzibar. Three Manhattan companies dealt, respectively, with Japan, Petrograd, the Crystal Caverns...
...Sorokin, formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of Petrograd, is perhaps the most distinguished authority on that subject in the world. As an author, he is perhaps better known than as a lecturer, for he has written a great deal on various phases of sociology, his most famous work being Social Mobility, which deals with contemporary sociological theories. Professor Sorokin will lecture in Economics 8 next Monday at 12 o'clock in Sever '7, and his subject at that time will be "European and American Sociology--a comparison." In the evening at 7.45 o'clock in Widener...
Under the auspices of the Bussey Institution, Professor Nikolsi A. Borodin, formerly Dean of the Department of Fish Culture and Fisheries, Petrograd Agricultural College, begins a series of lectures on "Biology as Applied to Fisheries and Fish Culture" today at 4 o'clock, in Room 402 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology on Oxford Street...
Professor Nikolai A. Borodin, formerly of the Petrograd Agricultural College, will give an illustrated lecture, today, at 4 o'clock, in room 402, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The lecture, presented under the auspices of the Bussey Institution, will be on two subjects: "Biology as Applied to Fisheries and Fish Culture" and "Fisheries...
...well content when the Tsar was sent to Siberia (where he was later assassinated); 2) that as the revolution assumed an uglier phase Cyril was the only one of the Grand Dukes to proclaim himself "republican," and thus managed to remain snug in his palace at Petrograd, long after other Romanovs were exiled and many murdered; 3) that the Grand Duke Cyril actually renounced his imperial prerogatives, in a panic, and called himself "Citizen Cyril Romanov"; 4) that in any case Nicholas II detested the Grand Duke Cyril and suspended all his honors, for some years, after he married...