Word: coded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Code & Confederates. In London during the early summer of 1940, Gilbert Renault, onetime businessman and would-be movie producer, found the Deuxième Bureau (Intelligence Section) of General de Gaulle's forces represented by one young officer in a cubbyhole. He asked for a mission in France not because he knew anything about intelligence work but because he wanted to see his family again...
Elliott and Sherover think the cerebrograph can be used to teach multiplication tables, chemical formulas, Morse code, logarithms, vocabularies. Eventually Sherover hopes to market his invention. "After all," says he, "a man spends one-third of his time asleep. This machine will add years to your life...
Died. Walter Francis Frear, 84, first Supreme Court Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Islands (1900-07), third Governor (1907-13); in Honolulu. A circuit judge under Queen Liliuokalani, he helped frame the legal code of the islands when they became a U.S. territory...
...editorial page of the Harvard Lampoon, set in small type beneath a masthead of multi-initialled cognomina, is the turgid legend: "No matter in this magazine may be printed without permission of publishers." Under this code, reproduction of the following is positively prohibited...
...discussions, the Legion itself indicated no concern that its own action might add to the box-office appeal of the picture, and at no time complained that matters were being delayed. At my request, Judge Stephen Jackson, who is assistant to Joseph Breen, director of the Motion Picture Code Authority, came on from Hollywood to act as an impartial negotiator. I also had Otto Preminger, director of the picture, fly on from California as soon as I received word of the Legion's action, and he participated in discussions on possible changes...