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...alphabet for radio, cable and telegraph was invented by Major General George 0. Squier, chief signal officer of the U. S. Army. Instead of dots, dashes and spaces of varying lengths of time, used in the Morse and Universal codes, General Squier's system employs three different wave intensities of each half cycle of alternating current (uniform in time), to represent the dot, dash and space, making various combinations for each character. This brings it into line with modern progress in electrical transmission, which has been revolutionized since Morse's alphabet, the development of which has stood still...
...Chinese alphabet has been reduced from 40,000 symbols to 40. This is the result of the development of a linotype machine by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company...
...much training, with the nightmare of Examination removed, a good deal of the present possibility of corruption could be eliminated. If private letters of introduction from instructors were to be substituted for the wage-earning qualities of a Ph.D., the inordinate desire for extra letters of the alphabet to place after one's name would largely disappear. Finally, if degrees were treated as secondary in importance, if colleges gave up the ambition to spatter their catalogues of faculties with doctor's titles, the present commercializing of the degree would stop. Unless some method of prevention is adopted, and adopted soon...
...with windows") declaring that all public documents and private writings should be destroyed, and that the written tongue should be promptly forgotten by the people and used no more. These orders were carried out literally to the letter, which accounts for the popular notion in regard to the Inca alphabet. Apparently, too, the threatened evil was warded off by this...
...fact has evidently been overlooked, and it leaves room for a theory which has been borne out by our discoveries here. That fact is the clause "by the people" in the edict banning the alphabet. Just what did that phrase mean to the Incas? It will be remembered that the Circle of the Elders at the university were also priests of the Sun-god. Clearly, then, what was written on the burdock by members of their sacred caste could not be displeasing to the god, and did not need to be destroyed, to ward off evil, as did the popular...