Word: reveal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public opinion polls, is about to go out of business; he discovers the "magic town," a village which has the precise proportion of doctors, lawyers, Republicans, Democrats, loiterers, etc., as does the entire nation; he goes there, on the theory that an analysis of the town's opinion will reveal the exact opinion of the whole country; he goes anonymously, realizing that the town must not become self-conscious about its representative nature; his secret leaks out; the town becomes a tremendous sensation throughout the nation; it has a boom; in the process, it loses its head and its representative...
Monro's regulations reveal that vets now exceeding the established purchase limit of $50 will be billed personally for additional expenditures...
...examination of the files of the CRIMSON would be interesting to the extent that such a study would reveal whether the paper had run with the herd or been in the forefront in the formulation of campus opinion. My message for the seventieth anniversary is that the CRIMSON always should lead in the expression of honest opinion. Very sincerely yours, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT...
...Murderers. In crime detection, the test would not necessarily reveal the murderer among a group of suspects; but Szondi believes that he could eliminate people whose unconscious would never allow them to commit murder. The test, he thinks, would also reveal those whose unconscious makes them capable of murder. In ordinary use, Szondi says, the test will furnish "an X-ray picture of the psychic structure" of the patient, reveal "the hereditary content of the unconscious." It can also act as a warning to an engaged couple that their choices of pictures reveal latent sick genes so similar that marriage...
...daily routines of the teaching of history or a job with the light company are more interesting than the talks in the barroom; that the religious faith of the community has an elevation more significant than is expressed in its condemnation of sexual misdoings; that the tormented love affairs reveal a groping tenderness deeper than the bitter words that attend their endings; and finally, that the whole texture of life, the routines of going to work and to school, marriage and the raising of families, is kindlier and happier than is ever stated in books like this...