Word: turk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most noteworthy non-governmental preoccupations of President-Dictator Mustafa Kamal Ataturk of Turkey are history, archeology, language. Long ago Dictator Kamal Ataturk set archeologists to work digging up old Hittite civilizations of Asia Minor. Favorite Kamal Ataturk theses- largely unconfirmed by reputable anthropologists and philologists-are that the Turk is a lateral descendant of the old Hittite, that modern Turkish springs from one of the as-yet-undeciphered Hittite languages, that all other languages spring from the Turkish...
...Eastern Division. The Redskins needed to win to become Eastern champions; the Giants needed only a tie. Washingtonians bearing banners paraded up Fifth Avenue, whooped and hollered at the Polo Grounds as Baugh completed 11 out of 15 passes, Cliff Battles gained more than 200 yards running, and Tackle Turk Edwards broke open the hitherto impregnable Giant line. The Redskins won 49-to-14. They went jauntily back to Washington, and as they rehearsed for the wind-up with the fearsome Bears, railroads offered jubilant Washington fans a special rate of $23.20 for the round-trip to Chicago. The Bears...
Student members of the orchestra are: Eric T. Clarke '38, John T. Clarke '41, N. James Dain '39, Paul Franken '40, Richard S. Fogelman '40, Roger W. Loewi '39, James L. Morrisson '38, Rupert W. Pole '40, Raphael N. Silverman 2G, concertmaster, Elkan Turk, Jr. '39. The remaining ten members are from Radcliffe or outside. David H. Kimball '38, director of the entire group, conducts the orchestra...
...compromise ourselves here, and it is not fair that you sit by dispassionately observing us." The members' talk was not always as enamelled as their published words. On another occasion Gautier pierced a hubbub of argument by remarking: "I am very strong. I can hit 357 on the Turk's head at the Fair, and what is more, my metaphors make sense. That is what counts." Careful Critic Sainte-Beuve: "Criticism consists in saying whatever comes into one's head. That is all there is to it." Dispassionate observers, in spite of friendship, was just what...
...strongest group ever sent, this year's Oxford-Cambridge team proved unusually well-balanced. Relying on both team "Presidents" (captains), Alan Pennington (Oxford) and Godfrey Brown (Cambridge), for double wins, the Britishers had unbeatable talent on the track except in the hurdles. In the field they boasted a Turk who could shot-put 49 ft., a high-jumper who could clear 6 ft. 3 in., and Frederick Richard Webster, first Briton ever to pole-vault 13 ft., who got-his vaulting tips by corresponding with U. S. experts. At Cambridge, Mass, last fortnight Oxford-Cambridge swept the flat races...