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Word: revealing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make-up of the contribution card will have two effects: it will give added emphasis to student charities and will reveal the proportion the Council spends on purely administrative expenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities Drive | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

Resistance to this movement quickly took shape. President Klapper refused to reveal the names of the 42 teachers. Students and faculty members signed protests against the men who had demanded a Queens inquiry...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, David E. Lilienthal jr., and John G. Simon, S | Title: 'Radical' Students Face Pressures on Campus | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

...difficult problem in creating a style that would reveal the emotions of the matador at work and tell what is happening in the arena. In describing the fight, the author presents the thoughts and feelings of the matador. At times, it is difficult to tell exactly what the bull has done, but the rapid tempo and the strong emotional grip of this description make up for the factual problem...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

...impressionable Erica went home to her flat and fell into a troubled sleep. At midnight, she awoke to hear her pet cat screaming. Standing in her bathroom, she swore next morning, was a tall figure wearing the polterjacket. As Erica cried out in terror, the figure turned slowly to reveal the hideous face of an old crone. "I stared it away," reported Erica bravely. "It came up and then faded away like a television image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Polterjacket | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

When two Tennessee Democrats pulled together enough votes on Wednesday to kill the Wood Bill, alias the Taft-Hartley Law, there were immediate cries of triumph from labor and its backers. By the next morning, however, the smoke had cleared sufficiently to reveal one depressing fact: the Taft-Hartley statue was still on the books. As long as it says there, we haven't come back very far from the nadir of June, 1947, when the law was passed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Knock on Wood | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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