Word: decipherer
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He urged the authorization of an enlarged force of clerks and secretaries and cited instances of costly delay caused by the lack of enough clerks on hand to decipher code telegrams. He also mentioned important European cities where the United States is either insufficienty represented or not represented at all...
Mr. Murray first showed the significance of the word "logos," or man's words, which in early times contained practically the sum of human knowledge. In those days when a book was written it was considered the property of the author; it was to be kept from the public and...
The Peabody Museum has issued a report of the expedition sent out last year, under Mr. Gordon, to investigate and decipher the inscriptions on the Hieroglyphic Stairway at Copan, Central America. The expedition was absent nine months and succeeded in uncovering all the stairway that still remains in position. There...
We feel that few persons are aware of the rapid strides which have been taken at Harvard of late years towards the complete and perfect study of Greek and Roman antiquities. Leaving out of account the curriculum of classical studies common to our colleges in general in a more or...
He found himself suddenly before a high stone castle, with a flight of stone steps leading to it. Henry looked about for the chained lions, and, seeing none, concluded that they were unchained, or else restricted in the dungeons beneath. He gazed in silent awe at a huge tablet, not...