Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lenin is reported to be progressing favorably. Unofficially it is rumored that he has been dead for some weeks. As no one can see the Premier of the Russian Soviet Government, dead or alive, and as the press censorship is so severe that there is no possibility of a leak through official channels, the world will have to wait the pleasure of the parsimonious Bolsheviki...
...galoshen in wet weather has not always been a cardinal virtue. Only a few centuries ago John Locke gave the following instruction with regard to children: "I will advise his Feet to be washed every Day incold Water, and to have his Shoes so thin that they might leak and let in Water, Whenever he comes near...
...their detractors. "Teachers," he says, "often feel that examinations are needless because they are aware how much knowledge the pupil possesses, since they know what has been imparted to him. But how much has been poured into a bucket is a poor measure of what it contains if it leaks, and children's minds always leak, one never knows how much...
...feature of European revolutions that the wires are immediately cut. And then the game of pawns and kings goes on under cover of a rigid censorship. Yet the names of the players seem always to leak out. Those of von Jagow, von Tirpitz and Kapp cannot fail to stir up uneasy memories. It might be pertinent to recall that Lloyd George has not persuaded the Dutch to give up their royal guest. Amerongen is nearer to the scene of action than was Elba...
...leak was finally discovered by the use of stethoscopes. By applying these instrument to the ground the varying sound of the water which is under 900 pounds' pressure could be distinctly heard...