Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other than regard him as persona non grata, and we could not again receive him. His views are not what we are entitled to expect from a professedly friendly telegram." envoy. The Viceroy has seen this The telegram was undated ; it had obviously been sent originally in cipher code...
From his birth Gerd von Rundstedt was destined for the army. Before he tired of playing with lead soldiers, under his father's approving eye, he found himself a freshman in the cadet school at Oranienstein. There and at Gross-Lichterfelde, the wiry, chilly stripling learned the code of selfless devotion to duty and class. At 17, Rundstedt became a lieutenant...
Aiken took two years to develop the theory on which the calculator is based, six more years to build the machine. Many operations can be done by laymen, with the use of a code book prepared by a mathematician. The operator feeds a problem into the machine by punching holes in a tape in a coded sequence. The tape then rolls over a drum, which picks up the message by means of mechanical feelers and closes electrical circuits that start the calculation process...
...programs here require fast action, and the machines are able to give it. Civilian uses range from grading placement tests to figuring out the ratio of students to the various preparatory schools. In addition, all the telltale information about each man's College career is recorded by code punches on two basic cards...
...seems incredible, therefore, that a nation which has been so consistently true to the impulses of human kindness and the teachings of the Catholic Church should now yield to a false, pagan code of tyranny because of blood and race. How can men of good will fail to heed those solemn words of Pope Pius XI: 'Abraham is called our patriarch, our ancestor. Anti-Semitism is not compatible with the sublime reality of this text. It is a movement in which we Christians cannot share. Spiritually we are Semites...