Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years (1898-1901) "Old Joe," through secret emissaries traveling between London and Berlin, tried to construct an alliance of the British and German Empires. But Kaiser Wilhelm II would not concede Britain naval supremacy, and Foreign Minister Prince von Bülow insisted that Germany could yield nothing which would undercut her "destiny to rule the world...
...Dick Harlow at the press conference after the game, and no coach ever spoke more aptly of a team which well deserved his commendation. What pleased Harlow most, however, was evident by his statement: "Those who did not look good again Brown looked good yesterday," and it is no secret that he was speaking primarily of left tackle Tom Healey, left guard Nick Mellen, and center Tim Russell...
...Secret documents are always published after a major war, years afterward as a general thing. But just before the peace of last week (see p. 75), His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom made historic haste, disclosing in a White Paper ten documents of the Czechoslovak crisis, hitherto secret. Although these did not quite tell all, for verbal encounters had been of great importance, they provided future historians with prompt and vital data, provided glimpses behind the scenes of the recent crisis...
Document 1 is the final Runciman Report, summing up scores of hitherto secret cablegrams and verbal messages sent to His Majesty's Government by Viscount Runciman of Doxford in the period from August 3 to September 16, during which the veteran British shipping tycoon labored in Czechoslovakia as mediator...
...said the H. A. A., "You can't have those!" And just to make sure that they wouldn't use them, the jersies and numbers of all the players were changed, with the new combination a deep secret...