Word: decipherer
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There is, however, nothing mysterious to Signor Bendandi's forecasts. Some 30,000 quakes ruffle the earth yearly. Patient men have compiled world catalogs of recognized quakes, viz., R. Mallet's Catalogue of Recorded Earthquakes (1606 B.C.-A.D. 1842), J. Milne's A Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes...
Biological knowledge at New Haven, it seems, is reducible to the limits of the yes and no exam. This is, of course, no reflection on the sons of Eli in their non-academic capacity, but refers to the scientific racket recently exposed at Yale. Fortunate in the possession of a...
Dr. Crile's experiment toward creating living material out of dead is highly exciting. Basic material of all beings is protoplasm. Every body cell contains protoplasm, a gooey material like white of egg, one-fourth heavier than water. Protoplasm always contains at least twelve elements: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen...
Gules three stags caboched or, Crest: at the top of a tower argent, an arm and hand vested gules, cuffed argent, holding a tilting spear sable, pointing dexter." To decipher 'one might explain that "gules" means red, "vested" designates wearing, "sable" black, "caboched" showing the full face but nothing of...
In Elizabeth, N. J., Sang Wah, laundryman, disappeared. For three weeks frantic customers tried vainly to obtain a total of $1,000 worth of laundry while annoyed policemen, unable to decipher the orange tickets, were unable to decide which laundry was whose.