Word: q
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides the meetings, Mensa collects information about high-I.Q. people by means of questionnaires circulated periodically among the members. The Research Committee has made surveys of members' attitudes in such matters as capital punishment, politics...
...ancient, potbellied C46 of Cuba's nationalized Aerovias Q had barely broken ground from Havana airport, bound for the Isle of Pines with 53 aboard, when five men rushed the flight deck, guns in hand. Two guards aboard the plane fired their pistols. In the point-blank battle, the pilot, one guard and an attacker were killed. Six others, including the copilot, were wounded. Miraculously, the copilot managed to land in a sugar cane field, and the surviving would-be hijackers fled...
What's wrong with symbolism? It was a pretty good tool in the hands of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Nast and is today in Richard Q. Yardley's wonderful work [for the Baltimore...
Invented by a seven-man committee, including Conservative M. P. Isaac James Pitman (grandson of shorthand's Sir Isaac Pitman), the all-lower-case new alphabet is longer than the old one. While eliminating q and x, it retains all other conventional letters and adds 19 new sound symbols (e.g., ae in the first line of the sample above). In theory, this reduces some 2,000 letter sounds in the regular alphabet to a piano-sized 88. Using the new system, a few retarded readers have already been rapidly cured. But the obvious problem is what happens later, when...
Venusian Romance. As far as a layman is concerned, the conversation during the field trials, as well as during everyday dial twirling, is pure Venusian. but the hams call it "Q" signals. Examples: QXR for "stand by for a minute"; QTH for "where do you live?" Curiously enough, this kind of talk can bring romance. Typical is the case of Florence Majerus of Lewistown, Mont., who set up the first QSO (direct communication) between a YL (young lady) friend. Jean Bustard, and Max Stout, a radio officer in the merchant marine. Transmission was FB (fine business), and each was soon...