Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these deeds were as nothing to his turning of the face of Turkey from East to West. The abolition of the veil, fez, the institution of polygamy meant the abandonment of the nation's Moslem past. The substitution of civil, criminal and commercial codes of law copied from Western models for the old sheria laws led to the abolition of special privileges for foreigners. The writing of a new language with a new alphabet made literacy a privilege of the masses rather than of priests and intellectuals. Turkey in 1938 is a westernized nation...
...colleges which still cling to old-fashioned ground plays is the University of Pittsburgh, for the past 15 years coached by tall, angular Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland. Jock Sutherland, who learned his football under famed Pop Warner, is the envy of every other football coach in the country this year. He has what they call a "dream backfield''-powerful running backs who can block, kick and handle passes with equal skill...
...Goldberg, Stebbins, Cassiano and Chickerneo is rated on a par with the famed Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, Pitt's line- Daddio, Merkovsky, Lezouski, Dannies, Petro, Raskowski, Hoffman-may be favorably compared with Fordham's recent Seven Blocks of Granite, or any other publicized bulwark of the past...
...investigator of U. S. Indian music is a spry, 71-year-old, grey-haired woman, Frances Densmore. For the past 45 years, methodical Spinster Densmore has periodically left her old family home in Red Wing, Minn, to traipse over North America salvaging Indian war whoops and love songs, which she stuffed away in her oldfashioned, wax-cylinder recording machine...
Today, Miss Densmore's principal concern is in getting her thousands of Indian recordings transferred to permanent, standard phonograph discs. Of her past adventures and hardships she speaks modestly. Says she: "I have no special philosophy, but nothing downs...