Word: abd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wealthy Moslem, back in the '70s, when the college was founded. His granddaughter's husband, by the way, has just been made governor of the city, under the French. But the Moslems have never been free to benefit from the college without restrictions. In the days of Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid, they were forbidden to attend, and under the Young Turks a government lycee was opened to keep them from attending. But there is bound to be a great change, when the college re-opens. Even now the Moslems of the city have appealed to the Americans to take charge...