Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baby was born in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. The public that went to see it felt much as Benjamin Franklin did when, to conceal his misgivings, he said to a French balloonist who had urged him to ascend, "Newborn infants are singularly uninteresting...
...views on controversial questions instead of presenting the problem as a detached problem, and in allowing the discussion to wander from the approach of the topic to the heart of his course, out into generalities. Of course, the professor will not be able, and should not try, to conceal his own views, but he should expect his colleagues to confer with him when it appears that harm may come from classroom discussion...
...Tabor" to any St. Ber. nard boy and he will answer mechanically, "Mr. Jenkins." They were joint headmasters: John Jenkins, a brusque punctilious Englishman with a voice that barks, an eye that explodes, and a mustache that bristles in a futile attempt to conceal the deep and challenging kindness he feels for all lads under 16; Mr. Tabor, a man who looked as if he might have sat as a model, long ago, for Mr. Punch- a very tall, sanguine, athletic Mr. Punch, with a charm that made mothers ask him out to dinner and fathers...
Merchants who wish to conceal the fact that they are on earth...
Judge McCormick had declared that the Doheny leases were held secret to conceal the true facts from Congress and the public...