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Word: codee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deleted by the Hungarian censor, challenged to a duel with sabres a young man of equal rank, who had befouled her name while in his cups. When they faced each other accompanied by seconds, in a wood near Budapest, he stripped to the waist, according to the Hungarian dueling code, and demanded that she do likewise. When she refused he laughed, departed. Vexed, she wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Ignoble Dueling | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

Bridge addicts must now be aware that, under the new code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bridge Laws | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...card exposed during the auction must be left exposed; if it is a ten or higher, its holder's partner is barred from the auction. (The old code was indiscriminate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bridge Laws | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...five suit honors divided 2 and 3-50; four suit honors in one hand-80; five suit honors divided 4 and 1-90; all honors in one hand-100. One or two honors held by a side are not counted. (Brand new, but in wide vogue before the new code was officially published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bridge Laws | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...copyright conditions in the U.S. and internationally. Just as he carried on his father's business, he revived in 1887 and led the American Copyright League, originated by his father, George Palmer Putnam, in 1851. In 1891, this organization secured the passage in Congress of the present copyright code, an event France signalized by presenting Major Putnam with her Legion of Honor cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Junket | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

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