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But that's not the whole story. When the solons of the Hub get around to erecting traffic lights, they are most likely only to aggravate the rapidly deteriorating situation It is still beyond man's poor powers to decipher the complex series of messages meant to be conveyed by...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Washington and Boston: Dullness versus Exhiliration | 7/21/1964 | See Source »

Although geneticists agree that the giant molecules of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) contain the coded information that controls the development of living organisms, they have yet to decipher the message. But the varieties of experimental attack seem almost unlimited as stubborn scientific cryptologists continue to study one of nature's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetics: How Nature Reads the Code | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

Atkins, in the final address of the day, declared, "The School Committee is unable to decipher a Latin phrase. So we are here today to tell them that there is segregation, in fact, in Boston today."

Author: By David I. Oyama, | Title: 8000 Marchers in Roxbury Protest Segregation in City's Public Schools | 9/23/1963 | See Source »

Although our written Chinese is a bit rusty, we were able to decipher the lower of the two banners carried on the overcrowded ship on the cover. We could not find the final character in Mathews' dictionary, but it may be one of the shorter forms the Communists have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 20, 1963 | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

Hilliard's program has already shown striking successes. Last year a local garment factory tested 25 women on relief for jobs as power-sewing-machine operators. All flunked, many unable to even decipher the application blank. After attending classes for six months, they retook the test; 18 passed. Nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rx for Infectious Ignorance | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

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