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...price paid for the simplified language of 850 words--as against a King's English total of 414,000 words in the current Oxford English dictionary -- was called "insignificant in view of the prodigious powers Basic possesses, and the enormous feat on the part of its inventor...
Professor Richards was a co-worker of C. K. Ogden, inventor of Basic English, during the early stages of the development of the language introduced in 1930. Since he arrived here in 1939, Richards' work in Basic has been directed to teachers of English in foreign countries and American instructors working with children who have difficulty in reading...
Friends and relatives of the late Thomas Alva Edison, hopeful of long-hidden scientific wonders, watched his son Charles open the inventor's old rolltop desk (it had been closed to the public since Edison's death in 1931). Inside, besides masses of notes crammed into pigeonholes; a clutter of zoo-odd vials and miscellaneous containers, a piece of vulcanized rubber, scraps of tinfoil, scraps of old cigars, packets of seeds, two biographies of Edison, a collection of smoking-room stories, a bottle of soda mints, a partly used bottle of mouthwash, a plug of chewing tobacco...
...ever really turned the tide of a war, a cheery Scottish scientist named Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt* might claim to be the man. Sir Robert was the principal inventor of radar. The electronic watchdogs developed by him and his fellow "boffins" (secret war scientists) won the Battle of Britain for the outnumbered R.A.F. Sir Robert got a "well done"-the Order of the Bath...
...Johnny Torrio with shotgun slugs, broke his nerve and drove him out of town. For a while, the O'Banions were as tough as Al's mob. Its leaders were hard and ambitious-George ("Bugs") Moran, Vincent ("The Schemer") Drucci and Earl (Hymie) Weiss, the rosary-fingering inventor of the one-way ride. One day seven automobile loads of O'Banion men parked in front of Al's GHQ in Cicero and riddled it with Tommy guns. Al escaped. The O'Banions were not really broken until 1929. That was the year that five Capone...