Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quick settlement out of court ended what Chinese feminists had hoped would be a lengthy, thrilling and most educational cause celebre, opening the eyes of humble Chinese concubines to their wife-rights under China's new Legal Code (TIME, July 27). The settlement...
What seems an obviously hostile action, and as such war, to common sense cannot immediately be so labelled in international law. Unless the international legal code can be more strictly interpreted, it looks as if a great power could protect its interests by force at least to some extent. Failing such strict interpretation, the rule will hold that instead of two, there must be two equals "to make a fight...
Chinese lawyers seemed agreed last week that Concubine Shu Fei can establish her "wife" status under the new Chinese Legal Code (TIME, July 27) and obtain a "divorce," if she can prove the neglect and mistreatment she alleges. Her cause celebre made other Chinese concubines prick up their ears, made Chinese husbands cogitate...
...first-rate cryptographer, Yardley gives a fascinating account of the deciphering of messages between Germany and Mexico, and of dispatches which brought a death sentence to Pablo Waberski. Anyone who has slipped notes between schoolroom desks or fancied "The Gold Bug" will enjoy clear expositions of the decipherment of codes which,--enciphered, transposed, and with "nulls" sprinkled through them--seem quite unassailable to the layman. And the reader will sympathize with Yardley in his struggles with the Japanese code, broken one morning several hours after midnight, after months of struggle with the language, and examination of 10,000 indexed cards...
...White House the U. S. dream was made flesh. "After An drew Jackson every boy was being told he might be President of the United States." The North began to hustle. "Business ceased to be a mere occupation which must be carried on in accordance with the moral code. It had itself become part of that code. Money-making having become a virtue, it was no longer controlled by the virtues, but ranked with them, and could be weighed against them when any conflict occurred." As the U. S. stretched itself the booster was born. "As he lost sight...