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...unlike English, are phonetic, lend themselves to syllabic teaching). Once an adult learns symbols for syllables, he is well on his way to reading. Laubach began teaching their dialect (Maranaw) to the Moslem Moros of Mindanao by joshing them into memorizing the appearance of ma, then pointing to the chart where mama occurs. When the Moro says mama, he has read the Maranaw for man. After as little as half an hour, a bright Moro can stumble through a page. After an average of a dozen lessons any normal adult illiterate begins to read fluently...
...perhaps guilt. For the benefit of a community leading citizens need to cooperate equably and equitably, not to engage in destructive rivalry. The same is true of leading nations of the world, particularly the U.S. and Britain. A good historical example of such destructive rivalry is shown on the chart below. When the world's two strongest major currencies, pound and the dollar, were handled competitively in 1920 and 1921 and again from 1931 through 1933, the result was near-chaos...
...Navy published a new chart of Antarctica and the South Polar regions. The chart, based in part on the surveys of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, was the most complete ever issued for the area. Famous names packed away in this geographer's time capsule: Franklin D. Roosevelt Sea; Ickes Mountain; Cordell Hull Glacier. Eminent names: Rockefeller Plateau; Sulzberger Bay; Edsel Ford Ranges. Other names: Mobiloil Bay; Hearst Land; Paul Block...
...Service Dress, Blue, A, and Service Dress, Blue, B, and the Working Uniform have been scrambled up to produce the present outfit. The fellow who said that being in the Navy would simplify a woman's clothes problem had never witnessed a WAVE trying to dress according to the chart and the latest Bupers circular letter...
...followed the example of Britain and Canada. Both countries tried general price-freezing regulations without too much effect. But both have brought critical cost of living under control to a far greater extent than in the U.S. In Britain, for instance, the cost-of-living index (see chart) has actually declined slightly during the past year, after zooming way up before the British subsidy plan took hold...