Word: franca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turkish, about 12% of the school's 515 students come from other countries in the area, and the figure will rise to as much as 20%. Most of the students are still from upper-class backgrounds; since English is the modern world's technical lingua franca, all studies are conducted in English, and only the best-educated students are equipped to understand the texts. But in time, President Burdell expects his enrollment to include ''sons and daughters of peasants of Anatolia, miners of Zonguldak, fishing families of the Black Sea." In keeping with the students...