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...TIME'S ear, a trimotored airplane, colliding with a pole, breaking apart in mid-air and striking the ground, makes noise. As near as TIME and the English alphabet could catch the sound, it was whop, crack and smash. Do other readers agree with Writer de Lany...
...considerable improvement on printing from a typewritten sheet was made possible last week by International Business Machines Corp. I. B. M. has a new electric typewriter which uses 12-point Roman type and whose carriage automatically advances different spacings to allow each letter in the alphabet the width required by good type design. (Each typewriter letter is the same width.) Thus, capital W gets eight units of space, lower-case i or I only two units. The machine uses a 300-ft. paper ribbon, which runs through only once, thus keeping the copy uniform in blackness. There is also...
...facile, beautiful, expressive Sign Language of the Deaf have on the contrary attempted to abridge or suppress it in favor of an uncertain awkward method of communication known as 'lipreading' and whereas, the educated deaf bear witness overwhelmingly to the truth that the Sign Language and Manual Alphabet are the most practical, convenient and dependable medium of expression for those bereft of hearing, be it resolved that this Association unhesitatingly reaffirms its historical allegiance to and support of the beautiful Sign Language and Manual Alphabet, and commends all efforts made for its preservation and extension...
Calvin Coolidge is not in the Dictionary of American Biography because he died too late (1933) for Volume IV (Chanfour-to-Cushing). Last year Jane Addams and Edwin Arlington Robinson likewise died too late, William H. Woodin was in time. Last week this unique race between Death and the alphabet closed as the editors of the Dictionary completed a twelve-year labor, published their 20th and final volume (Werden-to-Zunser). Also last week the editors violated their inflexible alphabetical order for the first time...
...Alphabet Aid. To help farmers in this crisis nearly the whole alphabet of the New Deal will go into the field. WPA will pay an average of $40 to over 100,000 relief workers to build roads, construct dams to save water and through the Bureau of Biological Survey to restore refuges for wild fowl. With $20 a month grants and loans to buy forage, RA will help others to rehabilitate themselves. AAA will help them with $10,000.000 worth of seed loans, with some $30,000.000 to buy livestock. And NYA will provide financial aid so that their children...