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Word: coverted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they have made no attempt to have themselves heard. Britain has its Tory party; the United States has its Republicans; but who has ever heard a peep from the conservative at Harvard? With reference to equal representation for every political opinion, the union must not only avoid open or covert control by one pressure group or another, but must also allow, and if necessary seek, a conservative element as powerful as this collge group is numerous. So much the more reason why existing student organizations, none of which represent the conservative viewpoint, could not foster such a union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E Pluribus Union | 5/1/1941 | See Source »

...Meantime, in Illinois, the Committee's Senator Clyde M. Reed, Republican, stalked the Kelly-Nash covert, with a reluctant Democratic Senator, Lister Hill, at his side. Senator Hill can outbay a Baskerville hound on occasion, but this was not one of them. While witnesses came forth to say that politicians bought the vote of flophouse residents for 25?, 50? or a shot of liquor, cynical Chicagoans watched with only half an eye. Too many times they had seen that covert drawn blank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Open Season | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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