Word: turk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like gas? . . . To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. . . . The death of a Turkish bridge or rail, machine or gun, or high explosive was more profitable to us than the death of a Turk. . . . We could not afford casualties. . . . Our ideal was to keep his railways just working, but only just, with the maximum of loss and discomfort to him. . . . We used the smallest force in the quickest time at the farthest place...
...which she performs as a prostitute with more principles than profits. In Wharf Angel Toy (Dorothy Dell) is a San Francisco bad girl, rehabilitated by her pure love for Como (Preston Foster). He is a soap box socialist hounded by the police for a murder he did not commit. Turk (Victor McLaglen), also in love with Toy, helps Como escape. This leads to two climactic moments which, like the heroine, appear to have been dredged up from the past: the one in which Como and Turk, after a trip to China and back spent in exhaustive conversation about their romances...
...pined for a big, bad reputation, tried to impress his gang by stealing a car. He was caught almost immediately, sent to jail. Carolyn was the only person who understood why he had done it, but her vague inquiries were powerless to help him, until she discovered amiable Amy Turk, wife of the man who owned the car. Together they went to Oliver...
...rejected as unrealistic, improbable. Instead he hit upon the idea of making a simplified form of English, thinks it has a good chance of becoming the international auxiliary language of the future. Though the arguments in favor of his choice would be more cogent if he were a Frenchman. Turk or Prussian, he advances four potent claims: 1) English is now "the natural or governmental" language of over 500,000,000 people. 2) It is the second language of the Far East. 3) It is the language of more than 800 of the world's 1,400 radio stations...
...this has been well enough evidenced in Japanese sentiment, in the statements of the leading militarists, in the concentration of troops to the north of Manchukuo, in the nastiness over the Chinese Eastern Railroad. On the other side of the penny, Russia has hastened the building of the Turk-Sib tracks, strengthened the Vladivostok garrison with men and planes, and intimated pointedly that she would not yield a verst of land to anyone. Under these conditions of impending war (though Manchurian difficulties and the coming of winter may postpone the argument for a while), the introduction of a substantial trade...