Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...starred as the Deutschland, but almost, was Passenger Thomas C. Smith, special disbursing officer of the U. S. Legation at Copenhagen, whose voyage home was his first vacation in ten years. Uncrossing his fingers when the ship pulled in, Vacationist Smith recalled two other vacations in the last 20 years or so. In 1917 he took a holiday in Petrograd, soon found himself sojourning in the midst of the Russian revolution. To Tokyo he hied in 1923, arrived just in time to tremble through the most disastrous earthquake in Japanese history...
...candidates who missed the preliminary meeting should make a special effort to be on hand when practice sessions begin Monday night...
...familiar Schrafft quality right here in Harvard Square. Special luncheons and supper served daily...
...question of the University's tax-exemption was a burning one at the turn of the century as well as today, and Hull remembers being assigned by his managing editor to go down to City Hall and get material for a special article on the subject. Nothing came of the agitation by Cambridge officials at this time...