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...Some 2 5 TIME readers who can speak and read Hindustani, Malagasy, Arabic, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, other little-known tongues, would like to offer their services to the Government. Other TIME-reading linguists who wish to volunteer their services should write to Dr. J. M. Cowan, American Council of Learned Societies, 1219 Sixteenth St. N.W., Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 1, 1942 | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...subsidies to universities to start courses. Its intensive courses have already begun or are scheduled to begin this summer at nine universities (principally at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, California). Languages to be taught: Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Modern Greek, Icelandic, Malay, Mongol, Hungarian, Portuguese, Siamese, Burmese, Hindustani, Swahili, Dutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Spik Swahlli | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...Urdu-Hindustani as spoken by the Mohammedans in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Spadecarners | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...last ditch of defense, the one on which London relied most heavily by night, was anti-aircraft fire. The organizer of London's anti-aircraft defenses is Lieut. General Sir Frederick Alfred ("Tim") Pile, a short, dapper, witty, sporty Irishman who can speak Persian and Hindustani. He won the D. S. O. in 1918 for outstanding artillery work near Arras, a decade later helped devise Britain's first practical light tank. His personnel is an entirely civilian group from territorial regiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Softer, Softer, Softer | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...propagandist Fourth Front, as important as the military, economic and diplomatic fronts, BBC puts out 100,000 foreign-language words a day in everything from Magyar to Hindustani. This keeps a staff of 300 busy with 21 daily foreign broadcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fourth Front | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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