Word: spokenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what to many linguists appeared rather radical ideas. They have stressed the colloquial form of languages studied, and have demanded ability to speak the language fluently, accurately, and with an acceptable approximation to a native pronunciation. The War Department, moreover, wants practically perfect auditory comprehension of the language as spoken by natives...
...such men as Samuel H. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages, and Serge Elisseeff, professor of Far Eastern Languages, long experimentation has produced the method most suited to the Army's purpose. The requirements of the military for speed in teaching and the insistence upon the use of the spoken language called for a complete revision of the traditional methods of language instruction...
...signing, Jodl had spoken the last words for Germany. Ramrod-stiff, in a voice that choked and almost broke he said...
...Army Signal Corps: a sound recording system for sending spoken messages by carrier pigeon. The recording is on film, so thin that a 36,000-word message (two hours' dictation) can be carried by one pigeon. The film is edible, so that it can be eaten by its receiver to prevent its capture by the enemy...
...flock of phlegmatic German peasants, Peasant Rapp was a mystic with a sound business head. In 1804 he brought his peo ple to the U.S. ''not because he believed that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists. Settling in Har mony, Pennsylvania, his harsh, puritanical doctrines and iron discipline turned the religious zeal of his "spiritual communists" to good account. Within a year his colony of 60 log cabins had become...