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Word: decipherable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The play started loose--there was betting even on poor or mediocre cards. At the beginning of each hand the players talked a great deal, trying to decipher the opponents' strategy. But as the pot grew the conversation subsided. The room grew completely silent with only two or three players...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Harvard on $500 a Night | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

D. Wayne Batteau, who is under contract with the Navy to try to decipher porpoise 'language,' will speak on "The Training of Dolphins to Communicate" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House JCR.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dolphins | 3/7/1967 | See Source »

Arnold Arnstein, 68, is one of music's obscure middlemen-or more accurately, muddlemen: he is a copyist whose job it is to decipher the scribblings of composers. He works in a dingy cubbyhole on Manhattan's upper West Side, surrounded by towering stacks of music and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scores: Copy Cat | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

The man who played it so beautifully at Aspen was 38-year-old Jacob Lateiner, whom most professionals would call "a musician's musician," which is another way of saying that he lacks the glamour and glitter so dazzling to most nonprofessionals among concert audiences. The pros, on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: A Later Vintage | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

Their concern was understandable, but Bostonians were obviously hungering for print. When WNAC-TV plastered subways and buses with posters of a newspaper overlayed with big black letters, "Tonight go home and read your Channel 7," one subway rider was spotted with his nose against a poster as he tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Doing Without the Dailies | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

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