Word: turk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Detroit's exhibition was not assembled by the best known U. S. Persian scholar, Dr. Arthur Upham Pope, but by a member of the Detroit Institute's own staff, swarthy, hook-nosed Dr. Mehmet Aga-Oglu, a Persian scholar of almost equal authority. A Russian-born Turk, Dr. Oglu probably would never have known the difference between the Timurid School (1390-1480) and the followers of Bichiter the Great if his childhood ambition had not been to become a naval officer...
Nowhere Bound (by Leo Birinski; Birinski, Inc., producer) includes in its overstuffed cast characters named Tomski, McTavish, Schwartz, Grasso, Maureen, Basil Oxley, Ipolita Romanescu and A Young Turk. This polyglot crew is traveling involuntarily across the continent in a sleeping car on a special Government train. When they reach Ellis Island they are all to be deported as undesirable aliens. With this novel background, Playwright Birinski manages with considerable grace to produce a number of situations no less novel...
...Redskins' scintillants, Cliff Battles, ace ballcarrier of the league and star of the Brooklyn game; Erny Pinckert, former So. California captain and halfback; Pug Rentner of Northwestern; Ted Wright of Texas Teachers, who led the nation in scoring two years ago; Turk Edwards, All-Professional tackle; Hank McPhail, 230-pound fullback from Army, and Big Ben Boswell, 245-pound tackle from Texas Christian, will make their first appearance of the year on the Fenway sward...
...Turk Edwards, the tribe has a tackle considered the greatest that ever tred on a gridiron but now the 260-pound Edwards has a real running mate capable of playing brilliant football the entire 60-minutes of the game. The jovial Boswell of the campus is a terror in action and promises to be the outstanding line recruit of the 1934 professional season...
Died. Zaro Agha. circa 160. a Turk believed to be the oldest man in the world; of uremia; in Istanbul. Doctors who examined Zaro Agha thought his abnormal pituitary gland responsible for his longevity, never wholly subscribed to his statement that he was born two years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence...