Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deadliest tribes on the Archipelago, the Ifugao, have a very moral code and an extremely complicated system of justice," he explains. "Their medicine men, because they have no system of writing with which to preserve the rich mythology of the race, rely on their memories and can quote their father's teachings for weeks without running...
Animal Kingdom. In Leonia, N.J., Andreus Andrews was charged with violating the sanitary code by keeping a horse in his house. At Syracuse University, "Fletcher L. Bentley" was enrolled for three years as a student before it was discovered he was a wire-haired terrier...
...blacked-out London the pinch of milkless, eggless, fruitless days began to twist morals out of shape. While public morale rode high, by last week many a Londoner had relaxed his usually rigid code of personal honor sufficiently to treat Government war restrictions in much the same way that the mass of U.S. citizens treated Prohibition. It looked as though game-loving Britons were inclined to think that outwitting the Government was a sporting proposition...
What Hess wrote, in code, no Englishman knows. But within three weeks, Germany was at war for the first time with an enemy she had underestimated. Something of the value of Total Espionage may be measured between the greased-rail destruction of Western Europe, where it functioned perfectly, and the unpleasant surprise in the East, where it did by no means...
...prices and rents. It limits farm products to the price they fetched in the week ending Oct. 12, if not less than parity. It fixes a penalty of $5,000 and a year in jail (for both the buyer and the seller) for violation of the price code...