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Word: bulgarians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also with individual sounds: Zipf has gathered statistics in thirteen languages as widely separated in time and space as Bulgarian, Italian, and Sanskrit, and finds in them a startling confirmation of his theory. For in all these tongues, offsprings of the ancient Indo-European parent, the less "conspicuous" sounds are the more frequent. Thus "t" occupies about 7 per cent in all these languages, "d" about 3, 1-2 per cent; the very "conspicuous" "dh" is rarest of all dentals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Student Connects Analysis of Spoken Language With Einstein's Theory--Says Language Moves in Four Dimensions | 2/13/1930 | See Source »

Year ago when that gruff old Bulgarian elder statesman Nicholas Muchanoff set out on a secret mission to Rome (TIME, Feb. 4, 1929), the Italian and Greek ministers plenipotentiary at Sofia laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Betting on the Tsar | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...March the little Tsar himself left Sofia incognito?left behind a joyous and expectant people, thousands of whom had put Princess Giovanna's picture in one corner of their windowpanes and Tsar Boris' in the other. Sofia cafés were hastily renamed Konditorei Giovanna. Delighted Bulgarian editors "learned on highest authority" that Pope Pius XI had agreed to the following compromise: all offspring of Roman Catholic Princess Giovanna except her first-born male would be reared as Roman Catholics; but the premier male, as Crown Prince of Bulgaria, would espouse the Eastern Orthodox religion in order to comply with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Betting on the Tsar | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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