Word: alphabetics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...methods from potatoes," "A military court sentenced a sergeant to deprival of civil rights." To translate clearly, the machine had to have some simple translation rules (i.e., how to choose one of several meanings) impressed on its "memory" apparatus. And Russian letters had to be converted to their English alphabet equivalents...
...letters sound like static (KAGH, KARK, KWAK, WZIP, WROK, WOKY), others like Aztec gods (KIXL, KXJK, KXXX), and a few like New Year's Eve (WOOW, WEEI). For the commercially minded, there are KOIN, KASH and KALE. A rundown of Hawaiian stations has the roll of a Polynesian alphabet (KILA, KONA, KIPA, KULA, KANI), and the palm for redundancy goes to Puerto Rico's'monotonous station WWWW...
Though he made haste, he had an intuitive awareness of his people's gait. The old Turkish alphabet had become an esoteric nightmare of cumbersome Arabic scrawls; its difficulty contributed to illiteracy at home and incomprehensibility abroad. Kemal talked first to U.S. Educator John Dewey, then sat down with linguistic experts and worked out a new, simple Latin, A-B-C alphabet of 29 letters. Where new concepts lacked ancient symbols, he simply used Western forms: automobile to otomobil; coffee to kahve; statistic to istatistik...
...quiet time when television cloys and the children scuttle in chase of the Good Humor man, an ever-growing slice of the U.S. public has found a new diversion. Its name: Scrabble. Its components: a board with 225 squares, 100 small wooden counters bearing letters of the alphabet, two to four players, ability to spell (or a handy dictionary) and a few ounces of competitive spirit...
Students emerging from the recent exam period with grades well into the alphabet may find consolation for their grief in the brevity of the fall term reading period. Upon returning from the Christmas recess they found themselves saddled with heavy reading assignments, and nine days later, when exams began, even the most studious saw that they had given many of their courses a cursory treatment. But the short January reading period is not to be a scourge unique to students presently enrolled in the college. In the Registrar's recent bit of long range scheduling, the Ten Year Calendar...