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In the Driftway
December 17, 1924 issue

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The article discusses about cross-word puzzles. The number cryptogram, though rarer, is much more deadly than the common cross-word. Its pursuit requires no reference library of textbooks in naval engineering and Babylonian mythology. A number cryptogram, is a sum in arithmetic, expressed in letters which form a ten-letter key-word like a merchant's price code. For unbelievers in the gospel of commerce, puzzle-solving offers a quaint escape from the useful. For orthodox devotees of the daily dozen, it serves to enlarge the vocabulary and sharpen, as they virtuously say, the wits.

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CROSSWORD puzzles; CRYPTOGRAMS; TEXTBOOKS; MARINE engineering; MYTHOLOGY, Assyro-Babylonian; VOCABULARY
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