Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scribner's Magazine of the old and new standards of education is worthy of consideration. It cannot prove that the present day curriculum is all wrong in the light of the curriculum of the eighties or nineties, for that would be like judging a Victorian by our present ethical code. According to the lights of this age, education in general is probably pretty much all right. What the comparison does prove, if it proves anything, is that the age is all wrong and that education, as an accompaniment of the age, must suffer accordingly...
...this ancient art is the dry and dusty Law. Individuals in this world have become so bourgeois, so presale, that they no longer consider dispatching their quarrels out of court. It must not be forgotten, however, that there still remains a class of individuals who jealously guard the code of honor the individual nations. And fortunately they guard it so jealously that they are not satisfied by a mere throat wound...
...Graham of Winnipeg advocated " a spanking machine, which would have instruments varying from a broad paddle to a cat-of-nine-tails and so geared as to be administered with different degrees of severity ... to take the place of jail sentences for first offenders under the Criminal Code...
Died. Joseph Clarence Ward, 79, telegrapher at General Grant's headquarters during the Civil War, at Visalia, Calif. He is said to have taught the Morse code to Thomas Alva Edison, the then newsboy...
...days ago The New York Times published the full text of Premier Poincarée's reply to Lord Curzon's note on reparations. The text as printed covered 13 columns of the newspaper (about 15,000 words). As it was transmitted in " skeleton " telegraphic code it consisted of 10,644 words...