Word: alphabet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abolition of the Arabic alphabet and substitution of the Latin in a nation-wide drive so intensive that Dictator Kemal himself taught alphabet classes of high Turkish officials...
...other times Typographer Goudy has been far more specific. His two major works, The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering, are required reading for all apprentice printers, advertising agents, architects' draughtsmen. He has no idea how long it may take him to design a new alphabet. One of his most successful fonts, Hadriano, started with a rubbing taken from an inscription in the Louvre when guards were not looking, finished by 3 a. m. the next morning...
...Camelot, Fred Goudy's first font, he sold to a Boston firm for $10. Type founders who wish to buy a new Goudy alphabet today must pay $1,000 to $5,000 and in addition collect royalties for Goudy for its use outside the foundry...
...Says Teacher Macy: "A less vigorous child could never have done what she has done, and a less robust woman than I was would have gone to pieces under the strain." Her first job was to establish communication, which she did by teaching Helen the manual (finger) alphabet. In three years Helen had made such strides that the U. S. press had picked her up as a prodigy. Annie and Helen went north, lived for some years on "the capricious bounty of the wealthy." Then a fund was established; they settled down to get Helen through Radcliffe College. After...
...indomitable modernizer is Turkey's swart Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha. Having forbidden public reading of the Koran in Arabic, decreed substitution of the Latin alphabet for the old Arabic and given Turkey a new calendar, Dictator Kemal lately turned to history as taught in the schools. He caused an official textbook to be prepared for cheap and universal circulation. The first volume tells how Turkey passed through the Old Stone Age 5,000 years before Wrestern Europe. The famed Amazons were Turkish women. The early Chinese dynasties, the Indo-European Hindus, the Etruscans, Trojans and Cretans were really...