Word: decipherability
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The FBI was allowed to tap telephone wires and did. On Dec. 5 agents overheard an "apparently meaningless and therefore highly suspicious" telephone message from a Japanese newspaper woman to Tokyo. The FBI passed the message on to Military Intelligence, which submitted it to General Short at 6 o'...
Just six days before the Oct. 31 coal-strike deadline, WLB had brusquely torn up John Lewis' proposed Illinois mine contract (TIME, Oct. 25). In its place, WLB offered a contract so tortured in its reasoning, so filled with economic Greek, that it took WLB's own statisticians...
To the Roots. Professorial chambers are anywhere from twice to four times the size of those enjoyed at most rich universities. Paleographer Elias Avery Lowe got extra windows so that he might decipher ancient texts without eyestrain. Archeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian...
As a British tankman, Franchot Tone becomes a spy by accident. Lost in the desert during the British retreat of June 1942, sunstruck, temporarily deranged, he stumbles into a roadside inn which is shortly to become German Staff Headquarters. He quickly assumes the clothes and the role of a dead...
But then the sun stopped shining down in Rhode Island when the mightiest of the mighty dropped a set-up breather to Tufts. None of the Crimson strategists have yet been able to decipher the 3 to 1 victory the Jumbos perpetrated; but whatever the explanation, to news set the...