Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council has received copies of a proposed amendment to present City Zoning ordinances which, if approved, would replace the present zoning code...
When its eight members-formed an official conference in 1954 and adopted a "sanity code" to put football in its proper perspective, the Ivy League lapsed wholeheartedly into amateurism. The code reaffirmed longstanding Ivy prohibitions on such standard bigtime conveniences as the athletic scholarship, the fictional job, the specially rigged "gut" course. Coaches were forbidden to hold spring practice and reconciled themselves to starting practice at 5 o'clock on days when key players had afternoon lab periods. Substitute quarterbacks were content to watch the game from the sidelines, never dreamed of such bigtime facilities as huddling before...
...rudimentary version of the machine, the student answers by manipulating printed figures or letters. His arrangement of the figures and letters is compared by the machine with the correct answer, in code. If machine answer and student answer are congruent, the machine automatically proceeds to the next frame. If they do not agree, the student's answer is blanked out and he must answer again; the machine will not proceed until the right answer has been set down...
...holds a chair in law at Columbia University, was an assistant attorney general from 1944 to 1946. Part of that time he served at the Nuremberg Trials as a judge's adviser. At present, Wechsler is working with the American Law Institute on the drafting of a model penal code...
...Suit (by Albert Beich and William H. Wright; based on Edwin Code's novel) originally wore it to a costume party. Normally a man with a mouse manner, he works in his wife's family bank and quails before the Babbitts and snobs and stuffed shirts in his wife's family. Then, all at once, he takes to wearing the dog suit as he chooses and begins to act out his daydreams. One time he bites a lady, another time a banker; he scandalizes the depositors, horrifies the in-laws he hates, disturbs the wife he loves...