Word: code
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British code names for Wilson was "Aaron." When Anglo-American relations were strained, British publicists wired Colonel House that they would acquaint British leaders with Aaron's difficulties at home. At the outbreak of the War Aaron's difficulties were certainly immense, and Dr. Tansill's book gives the impression that Colonel House was not the least of them. Proud of his part in drawing up the Federal Reserve Act, House became an amateur financial expert, with the "comfortable conviction that his knowledge . . . was adequate to meet the emergency." In the chaotic situation that developed in international...
...citizens have poor eyesight before they reach 20, 48% before 40. Today more than 63,000 are blind and 100 times as many becoming blind. Heaviest strain on most people's eyes occurs during their school days. Last week the American Standards Association issued a new code calling for considerably more light in U. S. classrooms to save children's eyesight...
...code (which practically doubled the eight foot-candle minimum recommended by the same groups in 1932) produced more heat than light. For to pour 15 foot-candles on every pupil's desk would cost U. S. schools untold millions ($1,000,000 a year in New York City alone). Even before the code was issued, the National Council on Schoolhouse Construction, which was represented on a committee of 15 groups collaborating in the study, had adopted a resolution in convention withholding approval of the 15 foot-candle minimum until "scientific" tests had been made. A member of the committee...
...this the American Standards Association retorted that representatives of 14 reputable organizations, including the representative of the National Council on Schoolhouse Construction, had voted for the new code...
...audience sat David Selznick when Jezebel had its Hollywood premiere early this month. As Actress Davis venomously kicked aside convention, twisted the code of Southern chivalry, bit her lips to make them kissable, patted her cheeks with a hairbrush to make them scarlet, the audience glanced toward Producer Selznick to see how he liked these things that smacked of Gone With the Wind. If he let fall any comments, they fell in private...