Word: cryptically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terse, six-paragraph statement to strikers at his Edgewater, N. J. plant declaring that most of their demands had already been met and promising to raise wages as soon as conditions permitted. And he added this single cryptic sentence: "Recognition of collective bargaining through representatives of the workers' own choosing is already required by the present National Industrial Recovery...
...water can go and remain water is 698° F. Its pressure against pipes is then almost 2,900 lb. per sq. in. This difficulty gives value to a new fluid which Dr. Arthur Dehon Little, Boston chemist, discovered in Germany and reported last week. "NS fluid" is the cryptic name of the substance. Basically it is a mixture of metallic chlorides-sodium chloride (table salt), anhydrous aluminum chloride and ferric chloride. The mixture turns to liquid at 302° F. and flows as freely as water. At 1,500° F. it is still liquid. Apart from its high...
...following cryptic despatch was received at an early hour this morning in reply to a telegram sent to the Sage of the Age last week asking for his prognostications of the voting in the CRIMSON beer poll: Milwaukee, Wis., March...
With William Morris' not notoriously intelligible verses Authoress Mannin captions the three sections of her novel, symbolizes the three phases of her heroine's career?summery childhood, cryptic girlhood, mystic womanhood. Linda's simple story, the details of her family's life on Shawn's farm, make a pretty picture to hang on a cottage wall. Three generations back the Shawns had come from Ireland, rented a piece of land near Flaydering, near the North Sea. Andrew, Linda's father, runs the farm as well as his Celtic irresponsibility allows. His wife Ellen, once a schoolmarm...
...your issue of May 30, under Prohibition, "Who's Ashamed?" you carry a footnote, "*Answer: Any Southerner," as your cryptic comment on Mrs. Sabin's address over the radio...