Word: alphabet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collection of objects coming from or relating to the Semitic stock of peoples. The chief representatives of this stock are Arabians, Arameans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. The Semites were among the earliest peoples to rise to the state of civilized life. They have given to the world the alphabet, monotheism, three great religions, and three great books of religions. So vital and pervasive have these contributions been that, without a knowledge of their source, a large part of modern civilization is unintelligible...
...conversation the deaf use three systems of signs: 1) natural signs to express ideas; 2) methodical signs for words; and 3) manual signs each of which represents a letter of the alphabet...
...Kate's interpretation (at the age of 9) of knockings heard in the Fox house at Hydesville, N. Y., in 1848. Margaretta concurred in her sister's decision that the ghost was a murdered peddler. They translated one knock for "no," two for "yea," pointed at the alphabet to enable the spirit to spell out words. At Maria's home in Rochester, Kate and Margaretta established contact with deceased relatives, spread their fame, went to Buffalo where their public seances, first of the kind in history (excepting necromacy, etc.), were packed to the guards. Editor Horace Greeley...
...Queen and Empress, go to her last rest and, 64 years earlier, had seen the girl Victoria take the crown. She had seen the entire reign of William IV. And in 1830, at the age of 5-two years after she had mastered the little hieroglyphics that are the alphabet-she remembered donning a little black and white mourning frock for George IV, may he rest in peace. Last week, Britain mourned for her, and Britain had a right to mourn for the mother of so much of Britain's virtue: mother of Viscount Haldane of Cloan, twice Lord...
...state of affairs to be lamented, thinks Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, managing editor of The New Standard Dictionary. Last week, he proclaimed, before the American Phonetic Society, that there should be a symbol for each and every sound, i. e., an English alphabet of four dozen, instead of two baker's dozen words...