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...polygamy meant the abandonment of the nation's Moslem past. The substitution of civil, criminal and commercial codes of law copied from Western models for the old sheria laws led to the abolition of special privileges for foreigners. The writing of a new language with a new alphabet made literacy a privilege of the masses rather than of priests and intellectuals. Turkey in 1938 is a westernized nation...
...spoke by means of a number alphabet, one bark for a, two for b, three for c, as far as 16 for p; then backwards, ten for q, nine for r, to one for z. If there was doubt, Kurwenal was asked "Backwards?" or "Forward?" "Yes," he would say with one bark; or "No," with two. Among his intellectual feats...
...Alphabet Militia. When, beginning July 17, 1936, Army garrisons all over Morocco and Spain revolted under their officers' orders, Leftist political groups in Spain were not entirely unprepared. Wiseacres had believed that civil war was inevitable ever since the February elections gave the Rightist parties a popular vote of 4,696,000 to the Leftists' 4,356,000, but, owing to Spain's peculiar electoral system, gave the Leftists control of the Government with 296 seats in Parliament to the Rightists' 177. The Rightists correctly assumed that over to them would go most troops of Spain...
...wife, met a charming girl who called herself, somewhat interchangeably, Beula Benton Edmondson (her father was a Scotsman descended from a Norman knight who crossed the Channel with William the Conqueror), or Keetaw Kelantucky Sequoan (her mother was a Cherokee descended from Chief Sequoyah who invented the Cherokee alphabet). After a month's courtship he married her. Despite elaborate precautions to keep the time and place of the wedding secret, enthusiastic Tammany crowds jammed the streets for blocks. Dozens of New York's photographers turned out. To avoid their curiosity, Boss Croker and his bride decided...
...Each of these should be assigned a separate letter, according to the nomenclature suggested by Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist who in 1911 invented the word vitamin to describe these food elements essential to good health. But there are not enough letters in the English alphabet to go around. In addition to that difficulty, special students of vitamins are so bewildered by the mounting mass of facts about vitamins, that Professor Clive Maine McCay of Cornell put his tongue in his cheek and wrote for last week's Science...