Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That 250,000 Greeks are down with dengue feve* was last week's startling announcement from the Greek Ministry of Health...
...were of secondary interest beside the fact that Eleutherios Venizelos, "Grand Old Man of Crete," founder of the Greek Republic, and now Prime Minister, was also down with dengue fever, after having just won the Greek elections (TIME, Sept...
...Wagner Sleeping Car, at the exact turn of the century, it was discovered that 300 cars bore duplicate names. Mr. Dean spent a restless afternoon and evening. On a sudden inspiration, he had the Chicago public library opened. With a corps of clerks, he delved into ancient history, Greek, Roman. Within 24 hours he gave heroic and antique christening...
...conquering greedy Turk, bloody scimitar in hand, who hacked his way through the country, finally battered at the walls of Argos. Demetrios Ypsilanti held the citadel with 300 henchmen against 30,000 Turks. For three days Hero Ypsilanti did not budge; thereafter his name was ranked in Greek legend with Leonidas of Thermopylae...
...that a band of Michigan settlers proudly named a rude village Ypsilanti. Last week some 7,000 of its citizens met to see the presentation of a marble bust of Demetrios Ypsilanti to the city by the Archontic Order of the Ahepa, Greek-American patriotic society, 3,500 visiting Ahepans paraded for two miles. Greek Aviator Nick Manteris, of Detroit, dropped a memorial wreath...