Word: ideographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characters (the most commonly used of the 80,000 in the Chinese language), mounted on a drum. Its keyboard has only 43 keys, 36 of them numerals. To operate the machine, a typist must memorize 5,400 combinations of four numbers each; every combination represents a Chinese word or ideograph. Pressing the keys revolves the electrically operated drum and brings the coded characters into place for printing...
Last week's high point came before 20,000 people, jampacked into New York's Madison Square Garden. Behind her on the crowded stage spread a vast grey-blue cloth backdrop, on which was emblazoned a huge red Chinese ideograph meaning victory. In a long black dress, gold-trimmed, wearing green earrings, black gloves, she looked more like next month's Vogue than the avenging angel of 422,000,000 people...
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