Word: reveal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Further statistics on the incoming class reveal that 88 percent of its members are veterans, that 27 percent are married, and the average age is between...
...investigation were made into the activities and interests of the regular gambler ... it would reveal an almost total lack of interest on his part in politics. The man who likes a flutter every day is not concerned with . . . the international scene and the current High Court case. Waiting for the results after the bets have been placed has a peculiar effect on the mind . . . drains work of any interest it may have, and deadens initiative...
What it has parted with least wisely, for it has found nothing at all compensating, is most of the hardboiled, high-flying satire of The Beggar's Opera. Gay ripped open the underworld of his time to reveal its dissoluteness and dog-eat-dog love of lucre; but he had a corrupt great world equally in mind, even satirizing Prime Minister Robert Walpole. And Gay made his bawds and fences, his cutpurses and stool pigeons part of a pungent, roaring scene...
...days in any farm, community would reveal to even a critical British traveler that surprisingly few of the girls or their mamas are pale and wan, with "narrow hips . . . and slender, nonprehensile hands." He would discover in any small town, and perhaps be cheered to learn, that not all of the homes consist of a "spectacled, crushed-looking man" dominated by a starved and sterile-appearing clotheshorse...
Future plans of the U. N. Council call for a poll to be taken in the spring term to reveal the extent of student knowledge and the direction of student opinion about the United Nations. The survey was stimulated by a recent nation-wide poll which revealed that 30 percent of the American people did not know that the United States was a member of the United Nations...