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...Formers," proclaimed the Daily Express, "ar welcum to Docter Folics nu Inglish. WE PREFER IT AS IT IS." But the Evening Standard felt constrained to point out that "spelling reform is supported by many of the leading intelligence of the country." One of these, of course, was G. B. Shaw, who long ago had pointed out that under the present system the word "fish" might just as well be spelled GHOTI; GH as in enough, O as in women, TI as in nation. GH-O-TI = fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Ghoti Today | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Precaution. In San Diego, police were looking for the two men who robbed the Nu Hotel of $23, then carefully went through Clerk Edwin A. Leonard's pockets and took his last nickel "to keep [him] from calling the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Gamma Theta Nu House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Oddest attack of last month was reported from Thakin Nu's own home town of Moulmeingyun. A band of Red Flag Communists led by a fair-skinned, 25-year-old girl named Bo Moe Kyi (Officer Clear Sky) swept down at dawn and quietly took over from the police. In the presence of the town elders, Clear Sky removed 60,000 rupees from the government treasury, burned all legal records at the courthouse and emptied the jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Yogi v. Commissars | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Before evacuating Moulmeingyun, Bo Moe Kyi sought out Thakin Nu's aging father, U Aung Nyein. "So you are the father of that 'rosary man' [psalm-shouter]," she said. "Please don't be frightened, sir, we give Thakin Nu our due respect, but there is nothing strange in Communists seizing from the government. As you see, we have taken 300 guns and 60,000 rupees, and now we'll leave. That is all, dear great uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Yogi v. Commissars | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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