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...Coordinator is the game's inventor: Dr. William E. Code of Chicago. Codeball is played with six-inch rubber balls; has two forms: Codeball-on-the-Green is like golf, except that the ball is kicked into 14 specially constructed "bowls" covering about a mile and a quarter in one round. Codeball-on-the-Court is played, also with the feet, on a handball court...
During the war, Rand said, the study of the Classics should increase despite the necessary concentration of practical subjects. "The same code of common-sense decency that Hitler has violated can be observed in Greek and Roman literature," he declared, "and their forms of government are ones that we should study...
...propaganda broadcasts. Every once in a while we hear a queer sounding program that isn't the usual sort of propaganda." As an example of this practice, Allport told of a program recently broadcasted from Berlin, describing in detail a track meet. This may well have been a code message, he believed, addressed to spies in America...
...loading a ship, as in packing a trunk, the heaviest cargo is usually put in the bottom. But wartime cargoes are loaded not by common sense but by code. Washington supplies a code breakdown with instructions on where to stow each item. If orders put Item XA in the bottom hold, there Item XA must go, whether it turns out on arrival to be eggs, airplanes or cigarets...
...there ever heard, or could it be conceived, that a man would dare to mention the practices of all the villains, all the mad usurpers, all the thieves and robbers in Asia, that he should gather them all up, and form the whole mass of abuses into one code and call it the duty of a British Governor...