Word: turk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colporteur Szoke spends most of his time in the restaurants and cafes of Budapest. Let us hasten to add that he does not go there to be fed, but to feed others with the Word of God." In Turkey, Armenian Colporteur Mihran Balian "tells of a Turk who was heard crying out with a loud voice in the midst of a large crowd: 'May this Society live long! What a philanthropic Society! It is not concerned at all with politics and supplies the people with books at cheap rates...
...near Acklin Island, Bahamas. At the helm was Rt. Rev. Roscow George Shedden, Anglican Bishop of Nassau, master and owner of the Livonia. A hearty amateur yachtsman, a onetime (1909-19) captain in the British Royal Fusiliers, Bishop Shedden has since 1919 been spiritual lord of the Bahama, Turk and Caicos Islands-a diocese embracing 13,122 church members, 83 churches, extending some 175,000 square miles of land and sea. To visit his flock he had embarked on a six-week boating trip, taking with him Eva Shedden, his sister and housekeeper, Rev. Donald Knowles, an Anglican missionary...
...that night to attract passing ships, but none came. Next day Missionary Knowles and two of the crew improvised a sail and mast, set out for Acklin Island, 17 miles away. The Bishop, Miss Shedden and the rest of the crew waited that long day, marooned. Then came a Turk's Island sailing sloop which Missionary Knowles had encountered. But not until a week after that did Nassau get the news, send out a launch to fetch home its boating Bishop...
...first is the tutorial system inaugurated by Dean Turk. Student tutors now prevent the man who lags in his work from academic suicide by intensive training in the subjects he fails to master. This system has its culmination for the year in exam week...
Best known in the U. S. for his illustrations of Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol (to prepare for which he lived in six prisons), Mr. Vassos began life in Constantinople, "son of a Turk and a Greek woman from Olympus." He cartooned on a Turkish newspaper but was ousted for sacrilege in 1915. He joined the British armies in Palestine, was transferred to minesweepers in the North Sea, was torpedoed and rescued by the U. S. Navy. Carried to the U. S., he lived by painting butchers' signs until commissioned to do the Wilde illustrations...