Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What famed phrase will probably be struck from the U. S. immigration code...
...student movement in American is taken up with the demand for student autonomy in student matters. Undergraduates are quarreling with alumni over the management of teams. They are refusing the sentimental code of college sport handed down to them. They are defending the leisure day against the inroads made upon it by competing Faculty departments. They are going further just now in demanding some share in the control of the working day at the college. They are questioning not only the requirements of subjects, but the methods of teaching. The time is soon coming when innovations in the curriculum will...
...Germany at the request of the State Department, the U. S. Secret Service intercepted a German cable addressed to him which read: "YOU MAY MARRY TIRPITZ." Puzzled, U. S. cryptographic experts toiled over these four words, failed to extract a meaning from what they took to be a fathomless code, at length goaded almost to distraction cautiously persisted in holding up the cable...
...that over a bathtub hangs a portrait in oils of Napoleon; that each "tomb" has its windowless "shrine" or ceremonial chamber where the most unmentionable rites are performed; that the central motive of each brotherhood is mutual fealty and assistance in time of need, and the maintenance of a code of ideals, emotional if not spiritual, gentlemanly if not militantly "moral...
...present code has flaws. It does not permit the adherence of this country to the International Copyright Union, or publishing league of nations, which excludes citizens of nonmember nations from copyright privileges in member nations, making it necessary for U.S. artists to obtain English protection for work they seek to introduce on the Continent. It does not care for domestic publishing by barring the importation of foreign editions of U.S. books, does not even bar English publishers from shipping over their editions of U.S. works to sell in competition with U.S. editions...