Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...m.p.h., skidded in the gravel on the roadside, turned over four times. Mrs. Ickes' skull was fractured. Driver Allen later died of a fractured pelvis and the other passengers, Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, onetime feature writer for the Chicago Tribune, and Ibrahim Seyfullah, Third Secretary to the Turkish Embassy, were critically injured...
...blew Italian Dictator Mussolini's gunpowder plant at Taino killing at least 33 last week. Up blew two of Turkish Dictator Kemal Ataturk's munition dumps on the Marmara Sea killing seven. And up blew a unit of one of German Dictator Hitler's war chemical plants, killing three...
Robert's tuition and board fee of $450 per year is a sum which only fairly rich Turks can afford. Hence the college draws its Turkish clientele largely from the prosperous middleclass, which wants its sons trained for business or engineering. The Turkish upper crust may send its daughters to Istanbul Woman's College for culture but in general it sends its sons to Istanbul's ancient native university, Galata Serai. Bulgarians, on the other hand, who have drawn a Premier, two front-rank diplomats and many another leader from the college's alumni, regard Robert...
...Bulgaria, a Turkish province, was struggling for its independence; on the Turkish island of Crete, Greeks had just ended an unsuccessful three-year revolt and a curly-haired moppet named Eleutherios ("Liberty") Venizelos was just 8 years old. Dr. House learned Bulgarian, and was instrumental in arranging exchanges of Bulgarian and Turkish prisoners...
...Kings of Irak and the Hejaz), secretly raised and led Arab irregulars against the Turks. Shrewd, daring and adroit at dealing with Arabs, Lawrence made his forces "invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like gas." In one year he tore up 15,000 rails, blew up 25 Turkish trains, 57 bridges and culverts. When the Arabs took their goal, Damascus, Lawrence quietly disappeared. Of all this he wrote in his monumental Seven Pillars of Wisdom (top price, $5,000; about no copies printed) which in two nights he abridged into the best-selling Revolt in the Desert. After...