Word: ciphering
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...other than regard him as persona non grata, and we could not again receive him. His views are not what we are entitled to expect from a professedly friendly telegram." envoy. The Viceroy has seen this The telegram was undated ; it had obviously been sent originally in cipher code...
Definitions: Semaphore--a graduated Freshman; cipher--to get gasoline with a rubber hose...
...have a hopeless cancer of the stomach.' Knowing that the roentgenologist would never have said such a thing, I asked, 'Just what did he say?' and the answer was that on dismissing him, the roentgenologist said to an assistant, 'N.P.' In Mayo Clinic cipher this meant 'no plates,' and indicated that the roentgenologist was so satisfied with the normal appearance of the stomach on the roentgenoscopic screen [fluoroscope] that he did not see any sense in making films. But to the patient, ... it meant 'nothing possible'; in other words, that...
...General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
This simple story, however, would have turned out to be a cipher without the admirable handling which the Dramatic Club has given it. Judiciously mixing slapstick farce with the comic-ballet technique developed by the Moscow Art Theatre, director Ted Squier '43, has done a superb job. The caricatures of the officials are finely conceived and executed, while the final scene is a masterpiece of dramatic staging. The director had good actors to work with and the result is one of the most well rounded casts that H. D. has presented. Most of the actors are unrecognizable under their astounding...