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Word: codee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When they first married, Inventor Edison, then a telegrapher, taught his wife the Morse code. Now on her deaf husband's hand Mrs. Edison transmits unheard conversation by tapping dots and dashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Man of Light | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...thousands of dollars for "protection." In a nearby cottage a radio was spluttering instructions to liquor transports off shore. As the raiders seized the operator, a Federal radioman took the key, sent luring messages to the transports. Long had the raiding radioman practiced the syndicate's secret code. Months prior, mysterious aerial buzzes had been picked up by a Coast Guard cutter. The intricate code had been deciphered, its source determined by radio compass. Thus had Prohibition men located the syndicate headquarters. New Jersey's Prohibition-Administrator William J. Calhoun, superviser of the syndicate roundup, boasted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Biggest Raid | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Mexican Penal Code, promulgated to become effective Dec. 15, also makes it no crime for a father to slay both his deceived daughter and her deceiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Penal Codes | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...CRIMINAL CODE-dynamic exposition of what is wrong with laws and jails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMING,GOING | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...recent fatalities would certainly indicate that interest in the game in high-schools is a distinct overemphasis--not particularly student interest, but that of school authorities, who, one fears, are trying to establish a college code of football where a high-school one is necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL FATALITIES | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

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