Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviets borrowed extensively from British, French, Swiss, and German law in formulating their own legal code, Berman continued. Therefore Soviet law curiously contains bourgeois terms such as contract and inheritance, even though its nature is decidedly socialistic. It does not bother with individual rights but has been set up as a means to administer the socialistic plan...
Market Tipster Frederick N. Goldsmith shook Wall Streeters two months ago by saying that his generally accurate tips came from a code in Bringing Up Father revealed by a spirit. In a Manhattan court hearing last week he took most of it back. The New York attorney general was trying to put Goldsmith out of business as a tipster. However, Goldsmith, veteran of 48 years of financial soothsaying, did admit that he had tried to get some spirit help, but had had no luck...
Promptly at 6, at the sound of a bell, retail buyers crowded into the slime-spattered aisles. Booted and aproned wholesalers waved samples in their faces, and shouted sales to clerks in a code gibberish by which they hoped to hide prices from competitors. By 11 a.m., nearly a million pounds of seafood had been sold. In this business-as-usual way, the biggest fish market in the world passed a historic milestone last week: it was 100 years...
...only colorblind; its eye is astigmatic, twitchy and inclined to water. To TV, the most modish gown or the nattiest waistcoat can look like something that was spilled on the carpet. In self-defense, the televisers have been devising a fashion code of their...
Besides being tardy, the Council suggestions are also incomplete. The code for indoor meetings is clear and well-considered, but the Council has not set down specifically where and why a stumper may stump out of doors. The Council has said what general considerations should guide University Hall, but it has said nothing about particular steps and streets and deltas. There could be much unpleasantness if the Faculty has only a vague basic policy to back up its permissions and denials...