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Word: cipher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always has been. At exactly high tide, six graceful white boats were launched at Southwark Bridge: two for the King, two for the Vintners, two for the Dyers. Most impressive were the King's rowboats. From their sterns hung large white standards bearing the crown and royal cipher. At their prows were small red and white "swan flags." Two Swanherds in scarlet coats rowed each boat. At the tiller of each sat a Swanmaster. whose duty it was to steer and watch for swans. Vintners' and Dyers' skiffs carried the banners of their guilds at the stern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swan-Upping | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Just as General Gomez came before Venezuela's oil boom so he came after General Cipriano Castro. General Castro's name is the key that unlocks the cipher of President Gomez's enigmatic Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: On the Map | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...taste in wine than of his taste in literature?which he takes for granted?the Thames wanderings of Younger Brother Morley are as rich and heady as though the water were turned into brown old wine with the Wife of Bath's passing. An apparently genuine "treasure cipher," its decipherment and what ensued give to the tale an almost spirituous tang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

Before a Congressional Commission investigating land grants to the Northern Pacific R. R., one D. F. McGowan, attorney for the Forestry Service, declared that a comma in legal writing may mean as much money as a cipher on the left side of a decimal point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Punctuation | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...that as it may, the Turkish Assistant Director of Police in Constantinople received a cipher message from the Grand National Assembly at An gora, new capital of Turkey, instructing him to deport the Patriarch. At the early hour of 6:30 a.m., the police official called upon His All Holiness, apprised him of his imminent de parture, courteously saw him through passport technicalities and safely upon an ordinary train which forthwith chugged him to Salonika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Exchangeable? | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

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