Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parents of his victims. That night he prayed with the three pastors. At dawn the doors of the shed in the prison yard were opened. Executioner Groepler wheeled out what he had been hammering and filing on all day, a dusty French guillotine, 130 years old, which, with the Code Napoleon was a present from the Emperor to the Rhine states. At 6 a.m. Killer Kuerten walked unmoved to the machine, stretched out his naked neck. Down crashed the knife...
Morlock, a State Department code expert to handle the Stimson messages to the White House...
...cards he holds by the way in which he bids. Systems-such as the Vanderbilt convention, the various methods of Lenz, Work, Whitehead, et. al.-are codified kicks under the table, designed to make bidding reveal as much information as possible. There are now so many different systems, i.e., codes of giving information, that bridge players, to avoid dispute though not confusion, are compelled to preface their sittings with protracted conferences to determine which code...
...Capone pleads guilty both ways; so while Mr. Mitchell edges him up to the jail, Mr. Mellon halts him at the door to make a thrifty touch for the Capone liquor income tax. Capone may get a little of what is coming to him for his curious code of ethics, but is Uncle Sam's code of ethics any less peculiar than Capone...
Then divers descended and hammered a Morse-code query against the Poseidon's hull. The return tap-taps indicated that at least eight of the 18 were alive. A day passed and the taps from the Poseidon ceased. The British Admiralty decided that the 18 men were dead...