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Helen Jerome's poem, Nichavo, set to music by Mana-Zucca to become the darling of student singers, distinctly translates the word (with the change in spelling) as "What's it matter?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

One branch in Tokyo is to be found at 79 Onden 3-chome, Shibuyaku. The telephone number is Aoyama 36-0404. The figure four is significant since it translates two ways-"shi" or "yon." The former can also translate death.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

George Houston is a onetime teacher in Rochester's Eastman School of Music who is currently starred as a horse-opera hero in Pathé's serial The Lone Rider. ("Those horses bounce the bejesus out of me-I hate 'em.") But Houston has learned things in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera for Husbands | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Once the code is set up, a prime contractor translates into it the parts of his job he wants help on. The U.S. Census Bureau's Hollerith machines take this alphabet soup and turn it into a directory. Thumbing this directory to see where his machines belong, a would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUBCONTRACTING: Stanley Plan | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

The hemispheric policy with which the new Axis partners were thus confronted had been seven years in the making. It was a policy which, after a hundred years of faults and fumbling, was designed to make fast friends of 125,000,000 other Americans who had never before quite trusted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hemispheric | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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