Word: alphabetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...books and written knowledge. "How can I arrange to see?" Louis wrote in his clumsy fashion one day. "How is it possible for me to read that which has been set down by the seeing?" Louis decided that the blind could never master a rapid reading of the ordinary alphabet. They needed-"a device that has nothing to do with the eyes...
...Juliett The pronouncing alphabet worked out by the armed services of the U.S., Britain & Canada in World War II gave many a foreign pilot cause to stutter and stammer. Last week the International Civil Aviation Organization, which sets stand ard international radio procedures around the world, brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec...
Insurance companies are interested in the storage capabilities of the machine. Since the binary dots can represent anything, including our alphabet, it should be possible to file immense amounts of information on the tape. The operator would simply dial a certain number and the desired data could be - transformed speedily from dots to typed English...
...writers, actors and politicians gathered to launch a ?250,000 memorial fund for the late George Bernard Shaw, heard a few words from the Irishman's longtime friend Lady Astor, who objected to the fact that he had left the bulk of his estate to promote a phonetic alphabet (TIME, April 2). Said she: "It was a ridiculous will. Let us form a society to break it . . . I took intelligent people down to argue with him about it. I said to him, 'Leave me some money. In generations to come, people will say, "That was the woman...
...idea of the importance of his find. The story was carved on a 200-lb. stone he dug out of a small hill that had once been an island in an ancient lake. The inscription was written in more than 200 runes, the ancient alphabet of the Norse. Ever since the carving was first translated, the Kensington Stone has been one of the most fascinating exhibits in the history of the daring Norse seamen...