Word: code
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...installation of these teletypes-especially radio teletypes-around the world is of great significance to the U.S. press, or to anyone interested in faster, more direct overseas communications. For one thing, these machines do away with several time-consuming operations, such as having to transcribe messages from Morse code into words. They also promise a solution to one of the most stubborn bottlenecks in overseas communication: the job of getting the message from the office of the communications company in, say, Bombay, to TIME'S Bombay office. In most cases delivery is now in the hands of local officials...
Professor Roscoe Pound is one of the most eminent jurists of the generation. But Professor Pound, by his own admission, discusses matters outside the realm of the Law with "individual imbecility." Having recently completed a legal code for the Chinese Central Government, Professor Pound returned to this country and dropped minor words of wisdom that cannot be considered imbecilic, but can certainly be tossed in with the "inside dope" brought back by scores of junketing Congressmen, visiting firemen, and just plain tourists...
Died. William Harris Jr., 62, serious-minded Broadway producer of serious-minded plays (Outward Bound, The Criminal Code, John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Russian and Turkish soldiers who man their common frontier have evolved even in this ticklish period a code of ethics. As they march along either side of the river, the Russian soldiers turn their backs when the Turkish soldiers pass, and the Turks do the same when the Russians pass. Some of the more boisterous Turks yell across to the Russians. But the Russians stolidly, silently continue their...
What really makes the Code tricky is the way it is "interpreted" for each picture's questionable scenes. Four "interpretations" are currently troubling the British...