Word: decipherability
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The Navy's second noteworthy censorship move was to announce plans for cable censorship. Under Secretary James V. Forrestal told the House Naval Affairs Committee that Navy and Army have a joint plan for censorship of all cable messages and. of course, of radio messages and broadcasts. The plan...
For four centuries thereafter, kings and commoners, scholars and clairvoyants have sought to decipher the vague, abstruse wording of the Centuries. Its antique, cloudy verse presages fires, floods, pestilence, monsters, wars to come, but usually at unspecified times. Much could be done with it, and much has been.
Died. Daniel Frohman, 89, dean of U. S. producers, whose career in the theatre went back to 1871; in Manhattan. "Uncle Dan," who first made himself useful as the 15-year-old New York Tribune copy boy who could decipher Horace Greeley's handwriting, learned about the theatre as...
In Germany he fell in with a young politician on the make, Adolf Hitler by name, and began to supply him with most of the ideas that later became Nazi gospel. He advocated a return to the pagan worship of Thor and Wotan. He wrote a long volume of gibberish...
Meanwhile the State Department rushed into action. A wireless was coded and dispatched to the vessel, which was about 800 miles west of Cobh, Ireland. To their surprise a casual message came back from Captain Edgar A. Chelton saying he had no code key; would they mind sending whatever they...