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...through a catalogue of human accomplishment, from Pythagoras on the mathematical laws that govern the universe to the revolutionary observations of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo; from Newton's experiments on the diffraction of light to James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the key to the alphabet of life, the master molecule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Upward and Onward? | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

Noting the speed in which new initialed combinations have joined the pro sports alphabet soup, it is only a matter of time before the moguls throw in the WTC, or World Team Crew...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Creme dela Cramer | 5/16/1974 | See Source »

...small island kingdom a millennium removed from Camelot. In telling of Kamehameha, the very real soldier who waged a 30-years' war (1780-1810) to create an Hawaiian nation, Tregaskis leaned indulgently on legends of the sort that defy time and locale. The Polynesians had neither calendar nor alphabet before English-speaking traders started settling in the islands in the 1780s. Knowledge of Kamehameha's early career is misty, accounts of his later life were colored by success: by that time he had become a powerful King, and most of his enemies were dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polynesian Arthur | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...also attempted to eradicate all foreign influence from Libya. Everywhere, even on street signs, Arabic letters have supplanted the Latin alphabet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Broken Engagement | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

When I was writing love poems, when love poems sprouted from me on every side, and I was dying of sadness, wandering, abandoned, gnawing the alphabet, they told...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) | 9/28/1973 | See Source »

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