Word: augean
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...Turkish Government has undertaken the Augean task of unscrambling the populations of the Near East. Most of Turkey's racial troubles in the past arose from the inextricable intermingling of Turks, Arabs, Greeks, Jews, Kurds, Georgians, Circassians, Armenians. The Government announced the establishment of zones, forbidden to racial minorities. These zones lie on the frontiers. Armenians are segregated out of Turkey. Arabs are forbidden the vilayets on the Syrian and Mesopotamian frontier. Georgians are forbidden the Kars and Ardahan eastern frontier, near Georgia. Greeks are restricted to Constantinople. Only Kurds are allowed villages speaking their own language. In other...
...shop and home they come, from the canons of great cities, from the gray cloisters of the universities, all march behind the great van of the tyrant, all with high ideals and hearts undisturbed by the grim realities around them. For theirs is the task of cleansing the modern Augean stables, and with mighty arm and mind they bend to the task...
...among us! During the pointing of Gore Hall, which was recently done, the numerous class ivies, endeared to our Alumni by so many fond associations, were ruthlessly ripped from the ragged rocks round which they ran. It is the same iconoclastic spirit which transmutes the Thayer Club to an Augean stable, shuts down upon future college journalism by laying walks, and is rapidly turning our Alma Mater into a mere Sahara of brick and mortar...