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Last week, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Petelka was looking for converts to his "Numbered Words," a code language that would probably have more appeal for mathematicians than for poets or orators. Whether it would achieve any more practical success than several thousand other international languages, hopefully devised by linguists and peace zealots ever since Babel (among them: Esperanto, Basic English, Volapiik, Novial, Ido, Ro, Nulango), was another story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: By the Numbers | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

There had been no rain for a month and the woods were tinder-dry. But promising-looking clouds were drifting over the great forest fire north of Sudbury, Ont. Kenneth G. Pettit, Canadian government meteorologist, hoped they were "supercooled" (well below freezing temperature). If so, he might precipitate them artificially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fire Icing | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...MACGREGOR Toronto, Ont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Toronto, Ont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Shadow & Substance. In Sault Sainte Marie, Ont., Herman Finer awoke from a dream that his restaurant was being robbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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