Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...years officials of the Ministry of Justice have been drafting a new Italian Commercial Code but Signor Mussolini, fired with his new idea, could not wait last week for his legal myrmidons to finish. Summoning his Cabinet, he slapped upon the table a decree already drafted...
...would-be successor Diamond was. Both were assailed in a hotel bedroom. Both staggered out, were carried by the same doctor to the same hospital, to the same room. Both were married, both refused to tell the police who shot them, both believing (with the police) in the underworld code...
...Three! has for its principal character one Nordson (Arthur Byron, warden of The Criminal Code), motor tycoon, whose young U. S. guest has secretly married a taxidriver. It takes Mr. Byron upwards of an hour and a great deal of telephoning and ordering about to get the driver transformed into a gentleman financier, suitable to the young lady's parents, whose arrival is imminent...
...civilization is simply imitation. The so-called educated man of whom our generation is so proud, only repeats in parrot fashion the knowledge inherited from the past, is lacking in the intellectual audacity necessary for true progress. The big-brained animal has created an artificial material environment and moral code for himself, has not developed sufficient brainpower to use his creation wisely...
...service should characterize all who, through the privileges of university training, have been particularly equipped in mind and in character for the duties of citizenship." The familiar phrase "noblesse oblige" implies that there is for those of superior calibre, those who have had opportunities greater than the average, a code which exacts loftier conduct than the ordinary code requires...