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Word: concealing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the attempts of fair-haired Vassarites to conceal the truth, the Lonely Hearts Club, Princeton's much discussed addition to campus organizations, is both active and successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

...shall conceal his identity partly from compassion, but more, perhaps, because we do not know it), emerged from Massachusetts Hall muttering surprise that he should be given the key to his mailbox rather than the mailman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

...crowding pre-War Dublin piecemeal through the eye of a verbal needle, he was hailed as the largest literary giant Ireland had ever produced. Seeing a giant, however, is not necessarily believing in him: and Ulysses' gigantic size seemed, to some critics and many lay readers, to conceal a wizened point of view. Readers who are cajoled into the belief that all is big in Brobdignag will find Giant Joyce's Collected Poems an eye opener. For not only are his poems measly in number (50), they seem small potatoes-and with few eyes in them at that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Personal Pangs | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...this man is allowed to take a place upon the Supreme Bench of the land, after admitting by a silence that all his adroitness could not conceal last night, the worst of the charges levied against him, there will be an ineffaceable stain upon the Supreme Court and upon the country. And the President of the United States will be totally responsible for that stain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BLACK MAN'S BURDEN | 10/2/1937 | See Source »

...this man (Black) answer simple questions unless he has something to conceal?", was the way the Government 1 head opened his discussion of the moment's most interesting news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Langer, Holcombe Are Optimistic in Reviewing Summer's Political Setup | 9/29/1937 | See Source »

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