Word: bosporus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Anita Grew, daughter of U. S. Ambassador to Turkey Joseph Clark Grew, and Robert English, secretary of the U. S. legation in Bangkok, Siam. Able-bodied Miss Grew swam the Bosporus from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmora last August (TIME...
...wangling passage for his wife, ten children & grandchildren to Turkey. Arrived at Istanbul, ingenious coal-black Ali besought Dictator Kemal Pasha thus: "In the name of 28,000 Moslems suffering from racial problems in America, I petition you to accord land on the shores of the Bosporus where we may create a flourishing American town and enjoy Turkey's traditional impartiality to Negroes...
Anita, 22-year-old daughter of Joseph Clark Grew, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, swam the length of the Bosporus (18 mi.) in five hours, while her father fed her chocolate, cheered her with phonograph music from a small boat...
Robert College was founded in 1863 by C. R. Robert, a New York merchant, who was assisted in the work by a group of Yale men. The school is located on the site of an old Turkish fort on the Bosporus about six miles from Constantinople. The student body includes young men of about 21 nationalities, chiefly Turkish, Greek, and Bulgarian. Slightly more than half of the students are moslems, with the sons of Turkish government officials forming the most prominent class...
...Ihlamour, suburb of Constantinople on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus, source of drinking water for generations has been a single deep narrow well in the market place. Housewives and porters gathered there every morning to draw water for their daily needs. There one Yusuf Hanoum, leather worker, sat down to rest last week, while his pet duck, name unknown, hopped up on the well curb :to keep him company. A stray dog frightened him. With an agitated squawk Yusuf's duck fell into Ihlamour's well. Unable to extricate his pet, Leather Worker Hanoum dropped half...