Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Locked up for millions of years in the heart of the lead atom lies a geological secret which promises to aid scientists in extending the knowledge of earth's history back farther than ever before into the ages following this planet's birth from the sun, a Harvard physicist has found...
...Griebl had a copy of a secret code, used by Miss Hofmann. He was the addressee of a letter found among her personal effects. He was a onetime president of the now defunct Friends of New Germany. Government agents counted on him as a star witness. They were shocked last week, when the investigation started: Ignatz Griebl had boarded the Bremen and was on the high seas, bound for Germany. At first glance, it appeared that this escape of Ignatz from a hair net was a brilliant piece of work. The assumption proved unwarranted. In his haste to leave...
...lone Cedillista pilot dropped down out of the bright Mexican sky in one of the General's fast fighting planes, zoomed over the Potosi airfield where President Cardenas had established his headquarters at Vista Hermosa, dumped four ineffective 25-lb. bombs and high-tailed it back to his secret air station in the hills...
Everybody has wondered what would happen if people could read each other's minds. In The Thought-Reading Machine amiable, yea-saying André Maurois gives them the power, finds people's secret thoughts are not so bad. Professor Dumoulin was lecturing at a U. S. university when a colleague handed him what looked like a rolled-up copy of FORTUNE, said it was an invention for recording secret thoughts. Dumoulin secretly tried it on his wife, unearthed a startling hodgepodge of sentimental memories of an early lover, resentment against himself. But when he taxed her about...
...under arrest in Saragossa, for having made a speech in which he attacked the Rightist Air Force for too vigorous bombing, was famed General Juan Yague, who led the recent Rightist drive which captured Lerida (TIME, April 11). Information that General Yague is out of circulation came from French secret service agents in Rightist territory, made a rattling good story on the Quai d'Orsay. Hot-tempered, hot-tongued General Yague was reported as having said that if Generalissimo Franco had as many members of his family in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia as have certain Rightist commanders, presumably including...