Word: modley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swimming time trials begin March 22, with the finals March 24. Open events are: 50, 100, and 200-yard freestyle; 50-yard breaststroke; 200-yard freestyle relay; 150-yard modley relay; and dive...
...second problem in developing accurate, clear communication between the Government and the Navajos was not handled by us at all, but by Mr. Rudolf Modley, who should receive public credit. It is not quite correct to state that Navajo, as it exists, can't find a word for such terms as "sheep unit." The trouble was that the interpreters, misunderstanding such terms, used the wrong terms in Navajo. Mr. Modley gave statements involving all such new terms to an interpreter, who passed them on in Navajo to several other English-speaking Navajos. These in turn told Mr. Modley...
With a workable alphabet, interpretation corrected, and a collection of phrases which had been tested on a number of non-English-speaking Indians, Mr. Modley got out his posters, with text in Navajo and English...