Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking a tip from the British, who have given their planes such lively names as Hurricane and Spitfire, the Navy last week gave names to its planes. Abandoned (except for official correspondence) was the Navy's peculiar code of airplane designations: SO3C (for Scout Observation plane, type 3, made by Curtiss), PB2Y (for Patrol Bomber, type 2, made by Consolidated), etc. The new lexicon...
...blown up by a person or persons unknown. The Japanese Kwantung Army used the incident as an excuse to seize Manchuria in defiance of the Japanese Empire's treaty obligations. A crime condoned, the Manchurian Incident was followed by other acts of international brigandage until the entire code of international morality disintegrated...
...Pope Benedict XIV declared that in The Netherlands and Belgium a Catholic could marry a "heretic" (i.e., a non-Catholic) without observance of Catholic ritual. Pope Clement XIII extended this ruling to Canada in 1764. The "Benedictine dispensation" was still in force when the present Quebec civil code was promulgated in 1866. But after Pius X revoked it in 1908, Quebec judges began interpreting the civil code provision that impediments to marriage "remain subject to the rules followed hitherto in the various churches" to mean they remain subject to papal ruling. They consistently invalidated mixed marriage not performed with...
...unless he met Gassner. He went to the U.S. consul, was advised to leave Germany. But his passport had been stolen. At last William Sebold wrote Gassner: "I accept your proposition 100 per cent." For the next month he lived in a be wildering maze of instructions in codes, radio transmission, photography , microphotography. His code book was Rachel Field's novel All This and Heaven Too. Soon he was sent to the U.S. to stay at Manhattan's 63rd St. Y.M.C.A. - "most of the crooks in America stay there," said his Nazi boss...
...slogan for Italian nationalists, because it was an acrostic for the then uncrowned "Victor Emmanuel Red'ltalia" (King of Italy). Sibelius' Finlandia rallied Finns when Finland belonged to Russia. And nowadays the opening "Fate" theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (corresponding to the Morse code . . . ) symbolizes occupied Europe's V campaign...