Word: secrete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report's most controversial sections dealt with the problem of how much build-up to prescribe for industry, as compared with agriculture. It was no secret that Commission Aide Euvaldo Lodi, president of the National Confederation of Industry (Brazil's N.A.M.), had argued heatedly in favor of industrial development, even charging that some U.S. commissioners wanted to leave that field wide open for fellow yanquis. But the commission's finding was that Brazil still lacks resources and equipment for a general advance on its entire economic front. Because stepping up industry would require a prior boost...
Some penicillin treatments now in use for syphilis and gonorrhea: require as many as 100 consecutive injections over a period of eight days, use from 2,000,000 to 9,000,000 units of the drug. Secret of the speedup and increased effectiveness of the new penicillin treatment, still in the experimental stage: the drug is dissolved in oil with 2% aluminum monostearate. The process coats the penicillin particles, which are ordinarily absorbed in the bloodstream within two to four hours, and keeps them at work for 72 hours...
...situation is probably not as remarkable as it sounds, for with more than six weeks until the opening race the boatings are anything but definite. In fact the secret of the Demise of the Varsity Crew probably goes no deeper than the fact that right now the eager sophomores have he jump on their varsity competitors because they have been training harder and longer--some since last September...
...nationalist problem is far more subtle than Jilka's hysteria, far less a conspiracy of individuals than of circumstances. It is not being nourished by would-be world conquerors or old Wehrmacht leaders meeting in secret underground. It is being nourished by the Soviet-zone concentration camps, which are no more decent than those of the Nazis, by the Soviet blockade of Berlin, by the division of Germany, by the inescapably antidemocratic machinery of military occupation, by the bitter polemics between East & West, by divisions among the Western powers that keep them from forming a coherent policy of their...
After long reflection, Director Heil bought the boy (for a price he regards as his secret) and took him home for a good soap & water scrubbing. By this winter he had reconstructed the sculpture's travels. In the 18303, it was purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...