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Word: beglerbeg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eager for classification, students sought a word which might fit such potent industrialists. They shelved master, titan, king, as painfully obvious. They considered ponderous recondite synonyms for potentate, but at length rejected hospodar, beglerbeg and three-tailed bashaw as offensively obscure. They hit happily on the brief but sonorous Tycoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tycoons | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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