Word: writting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spoken language can be reduced to type, the American Bible Society will do it. In association with other groups, the Society manages to publish Holy Writ in well over 600 tongues. By itself, it spreads the word in 299 languages and dialects. Its simple method is to devise, if need be, a phonetic version of spoken dialects, thus producing a useful tool for missionaries. For the Society's single-minded function is to supply enough forms of the Bible to make that book comprehensible to any human being anywhere...
...produced a 831-hour recorded version of the Bible. Its Finger-Fono system plays scriptural extracts on a lightweight plastic player whose turntable is spun by a finger-powered lever. But mostly the word is spread by the Society's volunteer workers and colporteurs, hawkers of Holy Writ who carry Bibles, pamphlets and records by donkey and jeep, camel and subway in 123 different countries...
...ruling, attorneys for the rights workers called off their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court had been asked to set ball for the students in a motion filed earlier this week. They said that they will continue with their appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus to release all four prisoners from all the charges
...action initiated today is entirely separate from attempts to secure a writ of habeas corpus from the Georgia Supreme Court. "It is another way of doing the same thing," Meltsner said. He noted that the five defendants have already spent two months in jail, on extremely suspicious evidence. The state grand jury will not meet until November, and if indicted, the students will not stand trial until several months after that...
...punishment without any kind of probable cause," Meltsner said. He said that if the students were out on ball, their lawyers would wait until the trial to attack the enforcement of the insurrection statute. Unusual measures are being taken because local officials show no dispensation to issue a writ of habeas corpus, or set reasonable bail for the prisoners, Meltsner said...