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Word: alphabet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Orthodox Mohammedans remembered the ominous adoption of hat in place of fez, the displacement of the Arabic alphabet in the Koran (TIME, July 23), saw in the icy visitation a manifestation of Allah's wrath, turned to the mosques for repentant prayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Snow | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...President Kemal made official use of the ordinary European alphabet in writing Turkish, last week, and announced that this daring innovation will soon be made compulsory throughout Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Nationalist Notes | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...widespread illiteracy of our population," he said shrewdly, "will make it far easier to introduce a new alphabet in Turkey than in a country where many people already know their letters. . . . Millions of Turks have abandoned the fez for the hat. . . . Thousands will find it even easier to adopt a new alphabet . . . [which] the millions will learn as their first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Nationalist Notes | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...letters in the name of J. D. Rockefeller, who gave each of the globe-circlers a lucky dime; 3) the 13 letters in the name of Standard Oil Co., which "brought Mr. Rockefeller no ill luck"; 4) the first letter of "Mears" is the 13th of the alphabet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Flyers: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...bathroom instead of in a glass tub before a mixed audience is not an infringement of the freedom of bathing; and my advice respecting the proposed lecture of Mrs. Russell no more affects the liberalism of the University of Wisconsin or its loyalty to free speech than the Hottentot alphabet-if there is one-affects the selling price of Wisconsin cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Take a Bath | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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