Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have an edge in modern guns, superior to hoary French models. The Germans use a new 105 mm. howitzer while the French rock along with antiquated Seventy-fives. Some professionals also contend that French rifles are out-of-date, "tall as the Eiffel Tower," hence difficult to conceal, whereas the Germans use a short carbine that snuggles neatly into shallow trenches and shell holes; that German anti-aircraft equipment is excellent, while the British, who need it more, are just beginning to approach bare minimum safety strength...
Adolf Hitler, triumphant, tried to conceal his jubilation. By threats he had cracked the tough little nut of Czechoslovakia and already could feel its meat crunching between his teeth...
...plan here proponed is severely competitive. The Committees does not seek in conceal that fact, but rather in make it clear, and especially in the competitors. It would hope that a selective system by which the University calls more than it can choose, and profits by their temporary services, may still afford a coveted opportunity to young scholars and teachers an opportunity to pursue the vocation of scholarship, to require experiences in teaching, and to establish themselves permanently in their profession whether at Harvard, or, through the good offices of Harvard, elsewhere...
...That Journey (Caxton, $2.50), the first novel of a 36-year-old Ohioan named Emerson Price, is a sample of such realism-a transcript of back-alley life, swimming-hole conversation, and those other phases of their private lives which sons conceal from their parents...
...grew to a claimed 400,000 members and signed up 850 textile plants, brusque and able Sidney Hillman gained in stature. He did not trouble to conceal Francis Gorman's descent into obscurity. Labor gossips soon reported that Mr. Gorman was fretting in his Washington corner. Last summer, he confirmed the gossip by suddenly quitting the council...