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...Ma sarparang mindu (The butter is not quite fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Found Horizon | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Needs. In North Africa, U.S. Army Nurse May Steinberg asked a wounded Negro soldier what he needed. Said he: "Ma'm, I needs everything. All I possesses is bullet holes and shining morale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 12, 1943 | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Literatizer | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

...Ma, I want to go, gee, Ma I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...Ma, I want to go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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