Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...move to abolish the honor system started last year when the Student Council by referendum established its unpopularity. The chief cause of dislike was a clause in the honor system code which required students to report cases of "cribbing...
...Manhattan offices of the Guaranty Trust Co., last week, Delegate Pancake conferred with fellow delegates, viewed with alarm a proposed change in cable rates. Up for discussion at Brussels will be the "Cortina report," recommending that code words be limited to five letters instead of ten, the cost of sending a 5-letter word to be 68% of the present 10-letter rate. Thus Mr. Pancake's hypothetical cable would read
...Pancake's supposititious cable was written in the code of the Commercial Cable Co. (I. T. & T. subsidiary). This code consists of 5-letter words, which can be joined in pairs to enjoy the 10-letter rate. But it could be deciphered by anyone with a code catalog. If Mr. Pancake had wished to be cunning and sly, he might have agreed in advance to use the catalog in this way: Instead of sending the word OCDIV ("Have received no letter from you since . . ."), he might have chosen the fifth word following, OCEHE, and so on throughout the message...
...Pancake had wished to be extraordinarily cunning, excessively sly, he might have written to the American Code Co., 206 Broadway, Manhattan, commissioning Master Codist Frederick Ainsworth Hall to prepare a private code for Pancake messages. Codist Hall, secretary to Lord Roberts during the Boer War, onetime (1919-21) expert for Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., would have devised a code similar in size to the Commercial Cable Code, charge about $1,000 for 1,000 copies...
...founder (1885) and publisher of the Knoxville Journal; of appendicitis; in Knoxville, Tenn. Republican and veteran of the Union Army, he was nevertheless elected mayor of Knoxville in 1873 and, in 1898, caused Tennessee to enact an anti-duel law in defiance of the oldtime code of honor, became the man whose birthday Knoxville considered "next to Christmas" in importance...