Word: arabicize
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Perturbed would be a U. S. businessman, professor, poet, soldier or statesman, if President Coolidge said to him: "Please write the sentence 'Now is the time for all good men to. come to the aid of the party' in Arabic characters."
Yet the President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, is doing practically this, and his people, bewildered but willing, are trying to obey. President Kemal has decided that Turkish shall no longer be written in the delicate intricacies of Arabic script. Instead, he wishes Turks to write Turkish in Latin characters...
Orthodox Mohammedans remembered the ominous adoption of hat in place of fez, the displacement of the Arabic alphabet in the Koran (TIME, July 23), saw in the icy visitation a manifestation of Allah's wrath, turned to the mosques for repentant prayers.
For the third time in the history of the potent Astor tribe, a yacht named Nourmahal (Arabic for "Light of 'My Soul") cut the waters of New York Harbor. The new Nourmahal is the biggest and sleekest of them all-2,000 tons, 264 feet overall, twin-screw Diesel...
Florence Trumbull, daughter of Connecticut's Governor John H. Trumbull, left by the Arabic.