Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...untutored eye, the photograph, on the library wall in a quiet brick house on Capitol Hill looks like any other sentimental memento of World War I-a double rank of Army officers seeming foolishly dated in their choked collars. But, like virtually everything else surrounding slight, modest, 64-year-old William Frederick Friedman, there is more to the picture than meets the eye. "Note," he says, pointing with enthusiasm to his old colleagues, "some of the faces are slightly turned. That's because the picture is actually a sentence in biliteral code." Its message: "Knowledge is power...
...Slight Odor. Setting up bachelor quarters in a windmill, Friedman went to work and in time was put in charge of a project by which the colonel, among others, hoped to prove by cipher that Sir Francis Bacon had written the entire works of Shakespeare (see FOREIGN NEWS). After achieving this lofty honor, Friedman married one of the colonel's as sistant cipher clerks, Elizabeth Smith. As World War I loomed on the European horizon, the impulsive colonel learned with a start that the U.S. Government had no cryptologists whatever. With scarcely a by-your-leave, he offered...
...ancient coronation ceremonies began in the courtyard of the ornate royal Palace of the Monkey God, the slight young King, in white jodhpurs and tunic, and his young Queen Devi, in a bright red sari, strolled casually in to take their places, cross-legged and barefoot, on white cushions placed before the throne...
...result of all this effort is a new figure for the equatorial radius of the earth: 6,378,260 meters (3,444 nautical miles)*instead of the 6,378,388 meter figure that had been generally accepted. The Army says that the slight difference will be of use in predicting the orbit of the artificial satellite. This is true, but improved knowledge of the earth's size and shape will also be useful to dispatchers of long-range guided missiles...
...holes in workbenches and cut off fingers." As for the much touted "valuable social experience" a pupil gets in school, "the values which are inculcated turn out to be largely these: a firm conviction that one can get by without working; an idea that quality of workmanship is of slight importance; a confirmed habit of disregarding instructions: a systematically cultivated indolence...