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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...
...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...
...anyone in our naval intelligence had disclosed the make-up of the Japanese attacking force, which presumably our profound scholars in Washington cubbyholes had identified by deciphering the secret Japanese code, there would have been a violation of the Espionage Act. ... Of course the Japs would immediately change their code and that would hinder our war effort and endanger our fighters until we cracked their new code...
...word of God that brought Mr. Carter and myself together." The two met after Horowitz' return from the Holy Land, where he became a disciple of Moses Guibbory, who settled down as a hermit in a cave near Jerusalem and claimed discovery of a "secret code" to the Bible's original meaning. Carter contributed to the hermit's expenses, took up Hebrew...
...legitimate criticism. With the Drew report before them, but with no go-ahead from the Government censors, the decision to print it or not was up to the editors. The Tribune's half-revelations were as close as any editor got to risking prosecution under the Civil Security Code...