Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both of whom have taught at the American University of Beirut, Syria. From time to time both men have sent interesting accounts of their work; likewise, the Committee has received letters from G. P. Hayes, A.M. '20, and last year's representative of the Mission at Robert College, Constantinople, Turkey, and from J. F. Stearns '22, who is at the University of Samakov, Bulgaria, under the auspices of the American Board of Foreign Missions...
...February 19 Mr. Albert W. Staub, Executive Secretary of Robert College, Constantinople, Turkey, and of Beirut University, Syria, spent the day in Cambridge, holding personal interviews with 23 men in regard to opportunities in the Near East. All of the conferences were held in the Randall Room, Phillips House, and lasted for fifteen minutes each...
...Whereupon Jeff colored up like a turkey gobbler, and, breaking away from the crowd, bolted into the gymnasium building and dashed downstairs to the locker room, while the rest of the joyous, grinning players streamed down the stairs after him, laughing and joking at his consternation...
...They will insist on adequate safeguards for foreigners in Turkey...
...Allies are in perfect accord with one another, but are keeping their weather-eye skinned for signs of Turkish double dealing. Possibly they have in mind the Treaty of London, May 30, 1913, in which Turkey- in-Europe was driven east of a line drawn from Enos (on the Aegean Sea) to Midia (on the Black Sea). When a commission of the Powers arrived to delimit the boundary, the Turks said: " Ah! We agreed to a line between Enos and Midia, but a curved line to take in Adrianople! " And they won their point...