Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep the present system except for x, c and q; 2) eliminate the neutral second vowels found in such words as colour, labour and honour; 3) substitute "unambiguous symbols" for the consonant combinations sh, zh, wh, th, dh, ng; also for the vowel-consonant combinations ah, aw, at, et, it, of, ut, oot, yoot...
...pleased to read the comments and articles published by TIME [Feb. 5 et seq.] on the situation created at La Prensa...
...looked as if Tydings and Browder had actually posed together. The caption added that Tydings had said, "Oh, thank you, sir," after Browder's testimony in the Tydings committee's investigation into Communism-in-government charges of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy (TIME, March 6, 1950 et ante...
...Singers' Single-Record Series (Victor; 54 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Employing nine of their top pop singers (Tony Martin, Dinah Shore, Perry Como et al.), Victor has released an avalanche of new versions of old hits (playing time: two hours 24 minutes) ranging from Walter Donaldson's My Mom (1947) back to Gus Kahn's My Isle of Golden Dreams...
...faculty group at the University of California last week gave its own tabulation of the cost of last year's loyalty-oath uproar (TIME, June 27, 1949 et seq.): no scholars. Twenty-six had been fired, 37 had resigned, 47 from other schools had declined invitations to teach or lecture. Among the 47: Harvard's Howard Mumford Jones, Minnesota's Robert Penn (All the King's Men) Warren, Chicago's Philosopher Rudolf Carnap...