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Word: coverted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lakin letters also revealed attempts to set the Cuban stage for visiting newspaper and magazine writers lest "they fall into the wrong hands." Covert arrangements had been made to receive and influence writers for TIME and for the New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Letters of Lakin | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

While the run of dentists tired themselves attending lectures, looking at exhibits, seeing Washington sights, buying tourist knicknacks for the folks at home, Dr. Bogle confabulated with henchmen. Candidate Dewey confabulated, also Candidate Oliver. After covert dickers the association elected the Army's Robert T. Oliver their president-elect for 1930-31. An able dental technician, President-Elect Oliver is, like almost all his colleagues, not an important scientist. Neither Who's Who in America nor American Men of Science recognizes him. Neither do these compilations recognize outgoing President Howe or incoming President Bogle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Testy Dentists | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

From Washington spread reports that the national organizations of both parties were preparing to make covert entry into the Virginia campaign in support of their respective Professors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prof. v. Prof. | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

There seemed to be a covert stinger in a speech delivered last week before the Chicago Association of Commerce by Karl August Bickel, president of the United Press. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: U. P. Proclamation | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...among all the Greek sponge-divers of Tarpon Springs last week, jovial young Demosthenes Kananis, who has been less than a year in the new world, was unquestioned hero. With covert glances the girls admired his broad shoulders and deep chest, remembering how, with a shout, he had slipped up from the deeps of Spring Bayou, holding high in his hand the dripping bronze cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Demosthenes the Fortunate | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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