Word: alphabet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came the news from Budapest to Paris. Unhappy Acting League Council Chairman Tcheng Loh found himself a helpless victim of the alphabet. He was the wrong man in the wrong place. He speaks for a nation where wholesale smugglery of arms has produced incessant civil war. The very "Chinese Republic" from which he stands accredited at Paris has vanished in a welter of Chinese anarchy. Therefore his position in respect to a mere five carloads of smuggled machine gun parts was exquisitely awkward. No wonder then that Tcheng Loh betook his gangling, spidery self, last week, to the office...
...journal, printed with only twelve letters of the alphabet contrived by missionaries to crystallize a spoken language, once boasted securely the leading circulation of the islands. Now its sales lag wearily behind native strides in spoken and printed English...
...find some way to aid blind people, some way in which, if they could never see, they might at least learn to read. His method, a system of printing books with embossed letters, was developed and improved by Louis Braille. The code which bears his name is an alphabet in which the letters are represented by raised dots, differing in number and position...
These inscriptions found on stone tablets which were hewn from the mountainside by the research-party, were deciphered by Professor Butin and others in Cairo this fall, and have proved fairly conclusive the existence of a definite link between Egyptian hieroghypics and the carliest Phoenician alphabet...
Professor Lake's talk will be based upon his recent scientific expedition to Palestine where studies were made on the famous undeciphered Srabit inscriptions, in an attempt to find the link between the Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Phoenician alphabet...