Word: cryptically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing, the X-particle was given a name instead of a cryptic designation. The name is barytron, which means "heavy particle" and was suggested by Dr. Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim of Duke University. The name has already found official favor, seems likely to stick...
...entrance, consisting of a broken-down closed car in which a skeleton sat, warm and dry, at the driver's wheel while in the back seat a semi-nude manikin was planted among flourishing weeds, a heavy shower pouring down on her golden hair. Once past this cryptic collection, visitors entered a long corridor lined with completely nude manikins, masked with bird cages, sprouting electric light bulbs, spotted here and there with snails, pins, bats and magnets. Then each visitor was handed a free flashlight and ushered into the darkness of a big, square room...
Last week after Pole Beck had returned to Warsaw, Danzig's private Führer Forster ended a speech in Berlin with this cryptic remark...
There who have been puzzled over the exact meaning of the expresion "If I were you" find one interpretation of the cryptic words offered in the play of that name by Paul Hervey Fox and Benn W. Levy. These dramatists say that their farce was suggested by an idea in a novel of Thorne Smith's, but their debt would seem greater than they thereby admit. Their end is physic research not yet reduced to scientific terms; their media are sex and the bathroom. Through the resulting fantastic extravaganza Constance Cummings barges with considerable gusto. The situations...
...Kennedy was besieged by the press. Said he: "It sounds just like one of those things." This cryptic comment was no rebuttal. Neither the State Department nor the President showed an inclination to deny the report. Having already finished his job as chairman of the Maritime Commission (TIME, Nov. 22), Joe Kennedy gave a farewell party to his staff at his Maryland mansion, and set off for a fortnight's holiday at Palm Beach in the manner of a man getting ready to tackle...