Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insure accurate copying of these cuts and others, one hairdresser introduced accurate code designations for the first time with letters as symbols (N for neckline, H for halo), figures for length. The haircut Greer Garson wore in Mrs. Miniver is #53, L12 (five inches long for three front cuts; length, twelve inches in back). "V" stands for the disordered Victory Cut worn by Ann Sheridan and many a U.S. female factory worker...
Messages are usually transmitted by a code sentence of which there are about a dozen. For instance, "Mot a nkele nda, ve atan, atan (Person he not go in house, but outside, outside)" is a warning that there is a leopard on the loose. When the drum says: "A nto ane jomolo, jomolo (He is as weakening, weakening)," it means a tribesman is very ill. When a man has died, the drum taps: "Only folds, folds hands on breast...
...hungry man returning from a hunt may stop at a village four miles from home, send a message to his wife to come in from her garden in the jungle and feed him. Message in drum code: "She is better than the daughter of other tribes, she who stands there. Oyono must not join the fighting, I don't want Oyono to die. Come walk quickly, quickly, I feel hunger not small." Dinner will be waiting when he gets home...
...good drummer knows not only the code messages, but code names for some 200 people. Sometimes in the early morning, when sound travels best, he will make a roll call of all important people in the district. Dr. Good passes on some good advice for drummers: "Don't lean over the drum or its sound will be muffled. Look in the direction you wish the sound to go. A good drummer must not eat chicken wings, give them to someone else...
...pencils, straw hats, and rubbers are more difficult to identify and usually wind up in P.B.B. The staff of the office is also kept busy by a steady stream of keys, most of which are University property. These are promptly returned to their proper locks by means of the code marking system which the Caretaking Department uses...