Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above average in intelligence (candidates are nominated by Congressmen, but must pass a stiff entrance examination), midshipmen are trained in a strict code of regulations that governs every detail of their lives down to gum-chewing. By the time he graduates, a midshipman can be recognized anywhere by his straight carriage (not as stiff as West Point's), his poise, his fluency (every midshipman is trained in after-dinner speaking), his robust health...
Suggest you place copy International Code of Signals (Hydrographic Office Publication No. 87) on your reference files to avoid further errors in reporting the historical accomplishments of the U.S.S. Omaha...
Sanitation. In Flushing, L.I., Fred Roper was found guilty of violating the Sanitary Code by quartering two elephants in his garage...
...studio of Draftsman Ralph E. Layman, police discovered a printing press, dies, a font of the eccentric, misshapen type used to print the code words on mutuel tickets. With this equipment, in an automobile parked near a race track, Layman could be his own totalisator machine, could punch out winning tickets after the race was over...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, makers of Two-Faced Woman, stood their ground and said they would not change the picture, pointed out that it had been approved by the Motion Picture Production Code Administration and had passed all the State censorship boards with only a few slight alterations...