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...Elken 'Turk, Jr. '39, retiring president of the Rifle Club, shot 375 out of 400 in a met here last night, qualifying as the Export Rifleman, the highest collegiate rank...
Shooting consistently high records this tear, Turk has proves one on the mainstays of the Club...
First of these was the ancient Silk Road, running 2,000 miles from Sian through Sinkiang (once part of China proper but now almost completely under Soviet dominance) to the Russian centres of Alma Ata and Sergiopol, on Russia's new Turk-Sib railroad. Over this Silk Road, then called the Imperial Highway, some 2,000 years ago camel caravans, loaded with silk, jade and lacquer, plodded their way to Samarkand, where the goods were shipped to Byzantium, Tyre, Rome. Seven centuries ago Marco Polo pushed his way down the Silk Road from the West to reach the court...
Most noteworthy non-governmental preoccupations of President-Dictator Mustafa Kamal Ataturk of Turkey are history, archeology, language. Long ago Dictator Kamal Ataturk set archeologists to work digging up old Hittite civilizations of Asia Minor. Favorite Kamal Ataturk theses- largely unconfirmed by reputable anthropologists and philologists-are that the Turk is a lateral descendant of the old Hittite, that modern Turkish springs from one of the as-yet-undeciphered Hittite languages, that all other languages spring from the Turkish...
...Eastern Division. The Redskins needed to win to become Eastern champions; the Giants needed only a tie. Washingtonians bearing banners paraded up Fifth Avenue, whooped and hollered at the Polo Grounds as Baugh completed 11 out of 15 passes, Cliff Battles gained more than 200 yards running, and Tackle Turk Edwards broke open the hitherto impregnable Giant line. The Redskins won 49-to-14. They went jauntily back to Washington, and as they rehearsed for the wind-up with the fearsome Bears, railroads offered jubilant Washington fans a special rate of $23.20 for the round-trip to Chicago. The Bears...