Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a cloak-and-dagger TV play in Britain, a solemn voice announced to televiewers: "Should you be threatened, ring the secret number Whitehall 5422, give the code number 1785, then the code word 'curtain raiser,' and you will be put straight through to the Prime Minister!" Delighted to hear such hush-hush information, hundreds rushed to their telephones to pass the time of day with Sir Anthony Eden, succeeded only in clogging the Cabinet Office's tie line to 10 Downing Street...
...game was played under California rules, which differ in several minor points from the International Code...
Although Kiphuth said he didn't look for de-emphasis of athletics at either Yale or in the Ivy League, he promised that Yale would comply with the Ivy League code stressing the educational value of athletics to the undergraduates. "By making Ivy games the criterion," he said, "it is hoped that unreasonable competitive standards will...
...Call to Himself. The digits for the free calls, says Bell, are hundreds of codes made up by users to get the desired information across without appearing to complete a call. Some are ridiculously simple, others awesomely elaborate, but all quite effective. One favorite is the no-answer code. A commuter who misses his train, for example, calls home at a prearranged time, lets the phone ring a predetermined number of times, then hangs up. Depending on the number of rings, his wife knows just what train he will catch, and what time to be at the station. Another much...
...first such machine which Skinner has invented. Last year he experimented with a machine to teach arithmetic to elementary school students. He emphasized that the machine which he will work on under the grant can be adapted to a large number of subject including the teaching of code...