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...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...
...With an alphabet board under his arm and adroit publicity before him, Shri Sadguru Meher Baba, Parsee "God Man," arrived in the U. S. last May (TIME, May 2). Though long-haired, silky-mustached Meher Baba indicated he had spoken no word for nearly seven years, he was willing to be interviewed by pointing to his little board, and to be photographed while doing it. Not every one was aware that this was not the God Man's first arrival in the U. S. Last December he quietly terminated an unpublicized stayin Harmon, N. Y., returned unostentatiously to India...
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Trouble with Editor Nicholls's scheme was that numbers with "i" or "o" in them lie out of the dial alphabet. And only a few people could translate their numbers into anything even as memorable as "Plesido." For example, best that Owen D. Young could get out of his Butterfield 8-2765 would be AV U A ROK? George Fisher Baker Jr.'s Atwater 9-2360 makes nothing better than...
Most important parts of the Watsongraph are two revolving discs with the letters of the alphabet around their edges. In both sending and receiving sets these discs revolve at the same speed so that the letters are in the same relative positions. When A is struck on the first machine and a radio impulse is released, the receiving set, because of the perfect synchronization of the two, can receive the impulse and send it only to the A typewriter...