Word: alphabet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returning to Cambridge from the short recess following final exams, all those whose surnames fall between A and B will have to get up before lunch to make the 8:30 to 12 o'clock deadline. The remainder of the alphabet will register from 1 to 4 o'clock. Late arrivals will have to squeeze into Mers Hall between 4 and 5 o'clock...
...literary critie, lecturer in Humanities 1a, and one of Harvard's hardest-hitting opponents of scholarship in-a-vacuum. "Do you know that of the 22 hundred million people in the world, 15 hundred million don't read at all, or read a script which doesn't use an alphabet?" he went on, in a tone of bitterness and shock which made it plain that his fight against illiteracy and incomplete communication is a root fact of his life...
Veterans especially, familiar with service-type roster systems, will again find that the man who was unfortunate enough to be born to people whose last name begins with a letter beyond G in the alphabet is in for the dirty end of the deal. Since men from A through G only are welcome at the first tea, by Wednesday the women are likely to be second-hand and shop-worn; obviously, it is unfair, and absolutely unpredictable, to judge a Radcliffian not at her very best...
...even closer around the party of Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet Government," and promised to turn their country "into one of the blooming corners of the Great Soviet Union." They added that since Russia "provided us with the opportunity to bypass the capitalistic path," Tannu Tuva has revised its alphabet (now modeled on the Russian), has organized state and collective farms, tractor stations, wagon works, shoe factories, and developed gold, coal and salt mines...
Atatürk, a cold-blooded genius who founded the People's Party, aimed at eventual democracy as part of his Westernization movement, which included a Westernized alphabet and abolition of the veil for women. This week it looked as if a dictatorship was peacefully evolving into a free country...