Word: decipherability
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Poe was a gambler, and "gambling, like bridge, is always an example of intelligence unfocused." As a detective he challenged the world to invent codes he could not decipher.
The U.S. entries were among the hardest to decipher. John Marin's seascape sketches and Karl Knaths's penciled still lifes seemed little more than shorthand notes made for the artists' convenience.
After holding the confusing scraps of paper for two years after Bartok's death, his executor handed them over to Bartok's close friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly, who had earlier spent four months of skull-cracking labor trying to decipher the piece. Serly later said: "No...
Occasionally the trick is to decipher the information after you have it. At one time during the Paris Peace Conference the then U.S. Secretary of State, Jimmy Byrnes, was too busy to talk to Laguerre about an important issue and promised to write out the answer for him during that...
These inscriptions were the "Rosetta Stone of Western Asia" which enabled scholars to decipher Babylonian and the other cuneiform languages of ancient Mesopotamia. About 100 years ago, philologists dangled from the cliff to copy part of the inscriptions; they tried it again in 1904. But much was missed or garbled...