Word: bosphorus
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...classes and basketball games. Here again class rivalry works up the students to a high pitch of excitement. A series of games is being played with the Pera Y. M. C. A. which is closed contested. One of the great needs of the students is a swimming pool, the Bosphorus being out of the question in winter. There is a movement on foot to build an asphalt tennis court for the students. Such a court could be played on most of the year in this climate, where there is little snow but much rain in the winter and spring...
...Cross, is Vice-Chairman of the Near East Relief Commission and a director of the Institute of International Education. His book, "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story", which first appeared in installments in last year's "World's Work", has been published in England under the title of "Secrets of the Bosphorus", and has also been translated into French and other languages...
...Turk--misses the privileges granted to her financiers by the old Turkish government, and is jealous of British influence in the Near East, particularly at Constantinople. The recovery of Turkish territory lost in Thrace and Asia Minor is the aim of both the Sultan's government on the Bosphorus and the Nationalists of Angora, who are capable of initiating no little trouble in the regions under Allied mandate. The pressure toward readjustment is strong: the future career of the French premier may depend much upon his obtaining the desired end with a minimum of debate...
...Danube to the Aegean and the Adriatic to the Bosphorus," on Wednesday, December...
...late Military Diplomatic Correspondent of the London Evening News, on "War and Diplomacy in the Balkans." It also includes eight lectues: 1. The Near East before the Great War. 2. The Near East in the Great War. 3. The Danube to the Egean and the Adriatic to the Bosphorus. 4. The Baghdad Railway in the War. 5. The Dardanelles. 6. Saloniki. 7. Constantinople. 8. Mesopotamia. The Future of the Balkans. This last series will be held on Wednesdays and Saturdays at five o'clock in the afternoon, beginning Wednesday, December 5, and omitting Christmas week...