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...eight years he lived on in his Frankfurt apartment, finally unable to speak or move, except for some power of movement in his right thumb. Even with the aid of his wife and nurses, he could write only by moving his thumb over a plate containing letters of the alphabet...
Ever since he showed up on campus in 1951, the quiet young man with the white glove has been watched and admired by the students and professors at little (enrollment: 750) Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. The glove bears all the letters of the alphabet, and the young man wears it when among strangers so that they may talk to him by pressing the letters. Richard Kinney, 30, is totally blind and deaf, but through his fine mind and the wondrous sensitivity of his right hand he has managed to become a campus legend...
...that had them taking bows from opposite sides of the stage. Gilliat and Bailey astutely conclude that the famous carpet dispute was only symptomatic of deeper trouble. Instead, they put the blame on Sullivan's wish that people think of the firm as Sullivan and Gilbert, custom and the alphabet notwithstanding. Tied in with Sullivan's attempt to "shine in a high esthetic line as a man of culture rare" via oratories and a grand opera, this business takes up too much time...
...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...