Word: code
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Acting as consultant to the Los Angeles Traffic Commission, the Bureau directed a detailed traffic survey of the metropolitan area. On the basis of this thorough inventory of the traffic situation a new traffic code was prepared and put into effect, with the assistance of an intensive educational campaign to familiarize street users with its provisions and relative advantages...
Briefly summarized, the effect of the new code was a substantial reduction in the accident record, coupled with a marked increase in the facility of traffic movement...
...clauses in the old Imperial Austro-Hungarian Military Code the above was naturally the most detested-by civilians. Last week Hungary's fiery new War Minister, Julius Gömbos, appeared before Parliament and announced his intention of reviving it verbatim...
...Vienna's Arthur Schnitzler has pointed out in a story (Leutnant Gustl), officers themselves may become the victims of the Code. He tells of a young lieutenant, insulted by a burly civilian, who attempts to draw, only to have the fellow seize his wrist and threaten to break his sword. If it breaks, the Lieutenant knows that, according to military honor, he must commit suicide. Luckily for the Lieutenant, Author Schnitzler demolishes the civilian in the nick of time by a stroke of apoplexy...
...CRIMINAL CODE-Penal horrors exposed...