Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undertaken the Augean task of unscrambling the populations of the Near East. Most of Turkey's racial troubles in the past arose from the inextricable intermingling of Turks, Arabs, Greeks, Jews, Kurds, Georgians, Circassians, Armenians. The Government announced the establishment of zones, forbidden to racial minorities. These zones lie on the frontiers. Armenians are segregated out of Turkey. Arabs are forbidden the vilayets on the Syrian and Mesopotamian frontier. Georgians are forbidden the Kars and Ardahan eastern frontier, near Georgia. Greeks are restricted to Constantinople. Only Kurds are allowed villages speaking their own language. In other villages, non-Turkish...
...reasons for this astonishing situation do not lie far below the surface. It merely happens that about three hundred years ago, isolated individuals about the continent of Europe wanted to know. That is, they refused to accept the dog-oared Aristotle so long revered by lothargic scholasticists, and became engrossed in finding out for themselves. Their chief instrument was doubt; their great virtue, a painstaking, indefatigable capacity for work. With Galileo, Descartes and Bacon began modern science--and so sound were the methods employed, so fruitful the results of this often-condemned skepticism, that now in 1924, the world...
...which stand out preëminently, but in somewhat different ways. One of these is La Follette. The other is Borah. The oil investigation is something that Mr. La Follette started. Of late Mr. Borah has started nothing of equal prominence. The germ of an important development may, however, lie in a resolution which Mr. Borah introduced last week...
...first half (11 rounds) of the international chess tournament closed, Dr. Lasker, the German, was the only player who had not once been defeated. The Russian, Alekhine, had won in as many games but had lost one. The championship appeared to lie between these two men and Reti of Czecho-Slovakia and Capablanca of Cuba, present champ. The two Americans (Ed. Lasker of Chicago and Frank Marshall of New York) stood at the bottom of the list, save one. At the very bottom was Englishman Yates...
...character of the Bolsheviks. One of the most dramatic incidents was his appearance before "Simanova, the Merciless", the most dreaded woman in all Russia and chief of the foreign division of the Cheka, the secret society whose acts of terrorism have horrified the world. "You must always lie in the Cheka", said Mr. Eaton, "for if you tell the truth they will take...