Word: code
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article in the American Mercury a few weeks ago, Tunis accused the Big Three of indirectly subsidizing players and disregarding the Presidents' Code of 1916 which regulates their intercollegiate athletic relations...
Stalin and Saracoglu. Meanwhile, an endless stream of code cablegrams played ring around Europe between the Turkish Military Mission in London, Turkish President Ismet Inönü at Ankara and Turkish Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu who was now becoming a permanent fixture at Moscow, conferring every few days with Stalin and Molotov...
Meanwhile the State Department rushed into action. A wireless was coded and dispatched to the vessel, which was about 800 miles west of Cobh, Ireland. To their surprise a casual message came back from Captain Edgar A. Chelton saying he had no code key; would they mind sending whatever they were saying in International Code-which anybody could decipher...
This insufficiency was not a question of scale, but the fact that Journey's End is a study of the English public-school code in wartime rather than of war itself. Its middle-aged schoolmaster Osborne, its eager schoolboy Raleigh respond to duty mindlessly, in a series of conditioned reflexes; they go to their deaths as "correctly" as to a dinner party. Only the chief character, Captain Stanhope (admirably played last week, as ten years ago, by Colin Keith-Johnston), jangled and jittery after three years of war, with horror gnawing away at habit, becomes a creature of conflict...
...Bowman should: 1) form an advisory cabinet of his deans, 2) form an advisory council of his teachers, 3) adopt a written code of tenure for teachers, 4) let faculty, students, alumni and trustees know what he does...