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...other high-frequency plaintext vowels, a, i and o, tend to avoid one another. A contact chart would show that three of the most common letters in the ciphertext -O, U and A-are the most mutually exclusive. OA appears twice, OU once, and UO, UA, AO and AU not at all. But NU appears five times in the cryptogram. It happens that the most frequent English vowel diagraph is ea. Thus it is a good bet that U = a. Similarly, since the combination io is most frequent among the three dissident vowels in English, assume that it is represented...
Following the Eliot kickoff, the Quincy offense had little success. For three plays the gridders were pushed backward toward their own goal, and on the fourth down they were forced to punt ou of their own end zone. The Elephants put on a heavy rush, blocked the punt, and Bob Beaman fell on the ball for Eliot's second score...
Curious to hear about TIME'S impact on the 600 or so natives of Niuafo'ou (which is generally called Tin Can Island in honor of its un usual mail-delivery system), Dame enclosed a questionnaire with some recent issues. He received a written reply from Kitione Mamata, the island's telegraph operator...
...most delightful piece on the program (and also that best suited to the talents of the Bach Society) was Couperin's Le Parnasse ou l'apotheose de Corelli. Hathaway played his own harpsichord part, waving a free hand whenever possible at the small group on either side. He seemed caught in the middle in more than one way, however, since the violins and cellos often disagreed on the tempo, the one rushing ahead of Hathaway and the other lagging behind. For the rest the performance was superb--the parts all meshed and precision triumphed over muddle. The programmatic aspect...
...riseth and setteth. Yesterday it setteth at six. Today it setteh at five. Where have all the flowers gone? Et ou sont les nieges d'antan. Voici sont les nieges de demain...