Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...syllables, not words -(most languages, unlike English, are phonetic, lend themselves to syllabic teaching). Once an adult learns symbols for syllables, he is well on his way to reading. Laubach began teaching their dialect (Maranaw) to the Moslem Moros of Mindanao by joshing them into memorizing the appearance of ma, then pointing to the chart where mama occurs. When the Moro says mama, he has read the Maranaw for man. After as little as half an hour, a bright Moro can stumble through a page. After an average of a dozen lessons any normal adult illiterate begins to read fluently...
...Ma, I want to go, gee, Ma I want...
...Ma, I want to go home...
...Army members at the School are classified now as 2nd lieutenants MA-AUS of the reserve. They will go on active duty around the end of June, first going to Fort Devens for induction, then returning to the Medical School where they will continue as Privates 7th class, in uniform and barracked in Vanderbilt Hall...
Aldo Nadi, 44, is a handsome, steel whip of a man, so slim (6 ft, 128 lb.) that on the fencing strip he bears a strong resemblance to his weapon. Some fencers consider him the greatest swordsman who ever lived. The son of a famous Italian Maître d'Armes, Aldo began fencing at four, won his first title at twelve, is acknowledged the world's finest foilsman...