Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...larger state, or of assuming the status and privileges of sovereign independence. But while it is comparatively easy to take an outline map and to mark off upon it the boundaries for a Jugo-Slavic, a Little Russian, a Great Russian, a Czech, a Polish, a Greek and an Armenian state, it is not so easy to put this division into effect or to justify it as a method for permanently quelling the periodic outbreaks of war in Europe...
...combined musical clubs of the University will not be permitted to play in a joint concert with the musical organizations of Yale and Princeton for the benefit of the Armenian and Syrian Relief Fund, was the decision reached yesterday afternoon by the Administrative Board of the University. The proposed concert would have been held in New York on the evening of Tuesday, January 15. The Metropolitan Opera House had already been engaged for the occasion...
...Armenian Mission, Watertown: L. R. Barker...
...past three years that she may pass as a judge. Her sympathies, it must be admitted, have been for Finland, Ireland, and Greece. She has seen with no overburdening woe the desolation by brand and steel of Serbia, the destruction of Belgium, the extinction of half of the Armenian race by the Turks for the honor of Islam. Yet now her ethics may not allow her to see without agony the deposition of Tino, alien king of Greece...
When the Turks began the attack on Van, they met an armed resistance from the Armenians who were able to obtain weapons of any kind. Bombs were thrown into Van by the Turks, but the Armenian women patrolled the city and rushed up to the bombs before the fuses had burned to the powder, and after extinguishing the flame, used the powder for the shells, which were used against the Turks. After 28 days of continual fighting, the Turks decided that it would be impossible to overcome the Armenian resistance quickly, and on hearing that the Russians were coming...