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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?"
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.
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...
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...
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...