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Word: scimitar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Does anyone doubt this? Curious goings on at Angora last week proved it again up to the Turkish scimitar's hilt. At no end of trouble and no small risk to himself Dictator Kemal, the apostle of "Europeanization" who made Turks take off the fez and put on the hat, provided his beloved country last week with what every real European republic has: a multi-party system, and its result, a crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Fantastic Crisis | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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