Word: verst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops to the north of Manchukuo, in the nastiness over the Chinese Eastern Railroad. On the other side of the penny, Russia has hastened the building of the Turk-Sib tracks, strengthened the Vladivostok garrison with men and planes, and intimated pointedly that she would not yield a verst of land to anyone. Under these conditions of impending war (though Manchurian difficulties and the coming of winter may postpone the argument for a while), the introduction of a substantial trade between America and the Soviet Maritime Provinces might contain irritating implications if Japanese invasion caused it to be broken...