Word: reveals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes complex individuals seem transparent, reduces difficult and obscure periods in their lives, over which scholars still debate, to matter-of-fact and readily understandable situations. In Prophets and Poets he has written of nine English writers, beginning with Kipling and ending with Katherine Mansfield. In an attempt to reveal the underlying philosophy of their writing, he succeeds in skimming the surface of fierce English intellectual quarrels as if unaware of their existence. Despite this tendency to linger over the elementary aspects of a writer's career, to pass over bitter political and cultural disputes, Prophets and Poets...
...unrevealed number of copies of the Book Review had been printed when Someone Higher Up saw what sample of Printer Thomas' work had been chosen to illustrate the review of his biography; what quotation Critic Titterton, who is literary adviser for prim National Broadcasting Co., had picked to reveal Napoleon's character. Choosing swiftly between typography and taste, the Higher Up ordered the presses stopped at once. All copies of the Book Review already printed were destroyed. Since it was too late for costly re-plating, printers were ordered to scratch out the offending line of type with...
This procedure should be followed in even such minor cases as illegal parking because antagonism is aroused under the present administration which is never overcome when cooperation is really needed. The members of Dunster House would have been more willing to reveal any information they might have had if they had not lost faith in Mr. Apted's unpolished tactics in other instances...
...amazing reference to 'the lull.'" Since for electioneering purposes His Majesty's Government must keep backstairs dealing with Dictator Mussolini on the back stairs until after Nov. 14. Mr. Lloyd George got no satisfaction last week. He taxed Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare to reveal the contents of the secret communication which passed between him and II Duce through Sir Eric Drummond, the British Ambassador in Rome (TIME, Oct. 28), and spoke of it as "the famous letter...
...favorite hymn of the Southern Methodists: Spirit of faith, come down, reveal the things of God; And make to us the Godhead known, and witness with the blood. 'Tis thine the blood to apply, and give us eyes to see, Who did for every sinner die, hath surely died for me. The favorite Negro Methodist hymn: Joy is a fruit that will not grow In nature's barren soil; All we can boast, till Christ we know, Is vanity and toil...