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...filled with astonishment and admiration over the great progress and development of Turkey. ... I see everywhere that same courage and imagination which distinguish such great men of today as Colonel Lindbergh and Henry Ford. . . . Take for example the changeover from the Arabic alphabet, the abolition of the fez and construction work in Angora. My visit in Angora ended with an inspection of the President's farm. There I found difficulties similar to those encountered in Arizona...
...under the Turkish Republic thrashing of servants by masters, wives by husbands, children by fathers, is no longer condoned. Mustafa Kemal Pasha, anxious to make his country as Western as possible, has abolished the schoolmaster's rod along with fezzes, women's veils and the complicated Turkish alphabet. Illegal in their implications now are the old Turkish sayings...
...church deprived him of his ecclesiastical functions because he was a Pansenist.* The Abbé developed his sign system in order to teach his two deaf sisters to communicate. His finger alphabet is still in use. Eugene E. Hannan, deaf sculptor of the Buffalo statue, reproduced the Epée alphabet on to the statue's base. Modeling the expressive fists was the hardest part of his work, said he last week. The statue itself represents the Abbe studying his clenched right hand for its possibilities in signs...
...outstanding shorthand systems are the Gregg and the Pitman (originated in 1837) and its adaptations. The Pitman has more symbols-an alphabet of 42 figures, numerous word signs-but fewer stenographers use it than the Gregg. Fundamentally all shorthand systems employ the use of phonetic spelling and abbreviation. But the Pitman method requires the use of lined stationery (identical symbols above and below a line have different connotations and characters of different shading (identical symbols written darker or lighter have different connotations...
...from training, enthusiastically undertook to tell the Chief of Staff a few things about gunfire-how the piece is rifled, how the shell is twirled, how its trajectory is increased. Shocked by the elementary nature of their talk and their unconscious assumption that he did not know his military alphabet, General Summerall cut the explanation short, gave the officers a sound verbal spanking, stalked from the field, leaving Lieutenant-Colonel Edward M. Shinkle, commanding officer, and his staff, standing at rigid attention. What, they must have wondered, would be the result of the artillery-men's subtle insubordination? Profound...