Word: alphabet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several in Japan founded by teachers who studied under Moldrem, several in Germany. The orchestras in Eureka and Hollywood set the pattern. Karl Moldrem teaches each child individually. First and often the most difficult step for the children is to learn the first seven letters of the alphabet in order to identify the notes of the scale. The mothers have to learn that there is no money in the orchestra for them or their offspring...
...According to researches by a Dr. Horne, the word "and" occurs 46,227 times in the Bible, the words "girl" and "reverend" only once each. The middle verse of the Bible occurs at Psalms, 118:8. In Ezra, 7:21 are all the letters of the alphabet except...
...contain less advertising. Otherwise, due largely to Publisher Motoyama's pioneering, there is little essential difference. Even Mutt & Jeff, Min & Andy Gump, Smitty, Jiggs & Maggie hurl pots and tongue-lash each other in Japanese. One printing handicap the Japanese have been unable to overcome-lack of a simplified alphabet. Ideographs necessitate much handwork. A picturesque oldtime method of news transportation still lives in Japan. Newshawks and photographers in the field often send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions of Mainichi and Nichi-Nichi in Japanese, Motoyama published a daily Mainichi in English, made...
...Egypt boiled with indignation last week at a Turkish insult to the fez, favorite headgear of Egypt's fat King Fuad. Years ago Turks abandoned the fez, the veil, the Arabic alphabet and polygamy by command of their progressive dictator, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha. It was Kemal himself, according to irate Cairo newspapers last week, who insulted the fez on Turkey's Independence Day at a banquet tendered by the President at Angora to the diplomatic corps...
...were produced in the reign K'anghsi, who was a great patron of letters. In the Harvard Chinese library is the original palace edition of a concordance of phrases found in classical, poetical, historical, and philosophical literature, arranged by rhymes. The complicated system of symbols used in the Chinese alphabet at this period rendered the task a life work for a large commission of scholars, who were commanded to devote themselves to it by the emperor...