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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...
...changing fast. The white man's 20th century has shattered the crude, tribal world which once gave meaning and sanction to the black man's life. In forests where 50 years ago there were no roads because the wheel was unknown, no schools because there was no alphabet, no peace because there was neither the will nor the means to enforce it, the sons of slaves dig for the raw material (copper, uranium, vanadium) of the Atomic...
...offered a tentative explanation. "You see," he said, "some time ago the Thai government sent up a list of some 70 American soldiers it wanted to decorate for assistance to the Thai battalion. The list was written in Thai, which is a very difficult language. It has its own alphabet, which is very squiggly. I can't say for sure, but I've got a hunch that the medal in question was supposed to be given to some other Johnson." It was-to Private Walter N. Johnson, now back on his farm in Aplington, Iowa...