Word: russians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Councilor Bogomoloff might not occupy his spare time by Russian secret service in Britain, Ambassador Sokolnikov paid a formal visit to Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, gave formal pledges that the Soviet Government would not engage in propaganda either in Britain or in any of the Dominions...
From the bleak little Siberian town of Habarovsk flashed news last week of an informal meeting between one Tsai Yun-shen, representing China-and one Simbn-ovsky, Soviet. Deploring the Sino-Russian dispute, they signed a peace protocol. The terms: Immediate restoration of joint management of the Chinese Eastern Railway (cause of all the strife); withdrawal of the Soviet army from Manchuria; mutual release of civilian and military prisoners; mutual reopening of consulates; a formal conference at Moscow, Jan. 25, to settle all questions still under dispute. World chancelleries took note, awaited word of the Moscow agenda...
...Rome that is the U. S. has returned one of its adopted sons, the ubiquitous, restless Russian painter of Philadelphia, Capt. Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, erstwhile of the Tsar's Cossacks (TIME, Dec. 19, 1927). Some years he goes to the Balkans. Once he went to Haiti with Naturalist William Beebe. Two years ago he went "up" north down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean. Last summer he went to see the monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece, which have changed scarcely by one syllable of a prayer since the 4th and 5th Centuries. Last week he was telling...
...healthy, wooden-faced men in the Mount Athos monasteries were reluctant to tell where the hermit lived. The visitors found him in a high labyrinth of bowlders, a place with a pure blue sky and the sound of bees. "Come in," answered a frail voice (in Russian) when they called. "Here...
Death and its causes studied by Russian and French physiologists...