Word: range
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...paused to deliver sentence: "Xenophon. Sitnin! Ten years imprisonment!" Two other less important prisoners received the same sentence. But the five ringleaders, headed by Professor Leonid Ramzin, were condemned, one after an-other to: "The highest measure of social protection, Rastrel [Death by shooting]." At each death sentence cheers rang through the packed courtroom, echoed by a crowd of 10,000 which had been standing in the snow outside since 5 p. m.- seven hours. To correspondents, some of the men sentenced to death looked "broken," others "nervous," as OGPU police took them to their cells. Were they really going...
...Moscow quiet, firm diplomatic protests apparently had some effect. When the prisoners seemed inclined to keep on with confessions tending to incriminate high French officials by name, President Vyshinsky of the Court loudly rang his bell, announced that when accusations involving prominent foreigners were to the fore the Court would sit in secret with no broadcasting...
...Painswick, England, twelve boy bellringers, locked in a church tower with no food or drink, rang 17,687 changes (continuous, unrepcated harmony) on twelve bells in 11½ hr., claimed a record...
...written for His Majesty's utterance by Socialists.* It was noticed that as the Socialist Lord Chancellor, Sir John Sankey, knelt and presented the speech his hand trembled. Grasping the document firmly the King-Emperor began to read in a voice which, when he was not clearing his throat, rang loudly and distinctly through the oblong, Gothic hall. Excerpts...
...kind of coordinating job. . . . The best we can do is to let various places know what others are doing. . . ." But at the desk they cleared for him in the Department of Commerce, Col. Woods gave a lively imitation of Washington's Busiest Man. His telephone rang at the rate of once every two minutes. Government officials from the Postmaster General down to the Chairman of the Shipping Board called to offer assistance. He hired Edward L. Bernays, smart Manhattan pressagent, to publicize the Government's work. Into newsreel microphones he preached a gospel of "sprucing up the home...