Word: concealer
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...does not, however, conceal his belief that an increasing number of industries will come to be carried on under conditions of virtual monopoly. He, therefore, argues for some sort of regulating commission analogous to the Interstate Commerce Commission. This is a proposal favored by an increasing number of lawyers as well as by many concerned with the management of existing monopolies. Whether it would prove a wise solution of the trust problem is primarily an economic rather than a legal question. It is also a far less simple question than the lawyer seems to appreciate...
...least once every year and usually oftener, some individuals inflict upon the University a cheap publication which is supposed to be witty enough to conceal the purely mercenary purposes of its anonymous perpetrators. With silent disapproval and fast tiring patience the University has allowed itself to be subjected to these fatuous money-making schemes. Each time the University has hoped that there would be no more and that the present one would not get beyond its walls...
...This purpose is realized only if all who consult the room consent to use the books in a spirit of fairness and with due regard for the rights of others. It is defeated whenever individuals carry away books, even temporarily, for their own advantage, or when they conceal books which they have been reading by placing them where they can find them, but where it is hoped others will not find them. Either of these things a man may very easily do if he is willing to put himself in the position of doing by stealth what he knows...
...stop being satisfied with creditable defeat?" With this sentence the Globe writer introduces his arraignment of our attitude toward football. The accusation angers us at first; but how is the outsider to know how bitter each successive defeat is to a great majority of undergraduates and graduates? We conceal our disappointment under praises of the "splendid showing," and as a result each year is a repetition of the last and we have the not altogether enviable reputation of being "gentlemanly losers." Is it not time to throw aside the thin veil of easy-going optimism and to make it clearly...
...present system of street railways is grossly overcapitalized. The stock quotations and selling ability of the shares of these companies indicate enormous profits to the roads and dividends from 5 to 10 per cent. The roads themselves in endeavoring to conceal the tremendous profits have deliberately falsified their accounts. By this means they have increased the apparent charges and made the dividends seem normal...