Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undergraduates will be able to sample courses in Modern Persian and Turkish given for the first time in University history next year as part of a new contemporary branch of the Comparative Philology Department...
Both new courses, Comparative Philology 260 in Persian and Comparative Philology 291 in Turkish, will be taught by Richard N. Frye, assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies and of General Education...
...late one afternoon to a handful of reporters, he said he thought that the world had come halfway along the hard road to peace. He thought that the turning point was not the Marshall Plan but the first announcement of the Truman Doctrine (which he modestly called the Greek-Turkish Aid Program) on March 12, 1947. He voiced a hope that in two more years the rehabilitation of 380 million people in Europe will have stabilized a great part of the world...
...keep in trim for his Jungle Jim role, even with clothes on. The incentive: if he weighs in for a picture at more than 190 pounds, his contract makes him forfeit $5,000 for each overweight pound up to ten. For his second film, after a night in a Turkish bath, he tipped the scales at a safe...
That was not the final indignity heaped upon patient Frankie Costello. Last week came word that Costello had been barred from the Turkish bath in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore, across the street from Tammany headquarters. Some of the customers, said a hotel spokesman, preferred not to perspire in his presence...