Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francaise" is feared for. French critics, storm, protest, and sign manifestos,--but the only effect so far has been to call forth the announcement of a new fiction prize of 30,000 francs. Present day prophets the "wise one", predict a day when French authors will be obliged to conceal the fact that their work was "Crowned",--after this "disease" has run its logical course. The dimculty today is that the "disease", apparently, is not yet as its height...
...privileges of the Room in total disregard of the the rights of their fellow students. In some cases maps or pages have been torn out from a book, making it valueless to the next reader; in other cases the user of a reserved book in demand has tried to conceal himself by sitting at a table remote from that at which he has stated he was sitting, or has carried the book away from the Room in spite of his signed promise not to do so; in a few cases books have been deliberately stolen by signing a fictitious name...
Princeton has one advantage in that it can afford to take all kinds of chances. Today's is its last game and it has nothing to conceal while Yale must still consider the Crimson scouts who will be sitting in the Bowl...
When there is booing the place to find the yellow streak is in the booer. If he realized what his jeer betrayed, he would try to conceal his cowardice by silence. --Boston Evening Globe...
...possible then, that Mars has something which she is anxious to conceal? Professor Lowell has long held that the planet is the seat of intelligent life; Marconi is convinced that he has received wireless messages from this source. So if, as is commonly supposed, Mars is a much older world than our own, Professor Todd should soon be turning his clock forward a million wears or so and spying out the future of the Human Race. Unfortunately, Nature dislikes dealing in futures, and will undoubtedly do all in her power to prevent him from casting the horoscope of this...