Word: tartaric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Timosha which is the diminutive of Timofei (Timotheus). O. J. Frederiksen's "Hughes-ovka" (TIME, Feb. 2) is a tour de force. There are a number of hamlets scattered all over the Kuban country and the North Caucasus with the prefix "Youz" or "Yuz" which is Turco-Tartar for "hundred" and denotes the original post of a Sotnja or a troop of one hundred Cossacks. The language of the Cossacks is full of words of Tartar origin and so are the names of their villages. Any bets...
...desert, but the caravan finally came into the long panhandle of Kansu Province. Kansu was not better than Sinkiang. The Chinese Moslems did not welcome their coreligionists from the west, and for two years the Kazaks fought a constant guerrilla war. Desperately they decided to move on, as Tartar tribes have done since time immemorial...
Ohio State. Last year Minnesota nearly caught a tartar in Ohio State. This year Coach Bierman may consider himself lucky that he did not schedule the Buckeyes. They have humbled three reputable opponents so far: Missouri (12-to-7), Southern California (33-to-0), Purdue...
...Russia was too big. And the Tartars were too cruel. They spent their whole time in expensive punitive expeditions. The Russians learned Tartar devices, eventually beat them...
...they staged a sit-down strike in the Senate Office Building corridors before the door of bantam, spitfire Carter Glass of Virginia, who is ready to declare war on Hitler any time. The Mothers' leader, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Dilling (author of The Red Network), mother of two, called Tartar Carter, father of four, "an overage destroyer of American youth." Persimmony Veteran Glass invited the G-Men to investigate the Mothers, added tartly: "It would be pertinent to inquire whether they are mothers. For the sake of the race, I devoutly hope...