Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secret of Japan's amazing rise to a commanding position in world affairs has been her astonishing ability to assimilate and apply new ideas. This has been possible largely from the nature of her civilization. Here was a people organized into a complete feudal system similar to that of medieval Europe, entirely obedient to rulers and leaders of genius, who suddenly came into possession of the knowledge and resources of the twentieth century. The result was a nation whose expansion, efficiency, and power became, in relation to size, far beyond that of any democracy or autocracy of modern European civilization...
...ashamed to own it. The Dunsany piece, "Apotheosis and the Peer", strikes this particular admirer of Dunsany as one of the high points in the collection. "A Wessex Tale" is quite Handyesque in tone and manner, though a keener study of Hardy might reveal to the writer the secret of that sureness of touch that makes the consumate artist. Joseph Conrad in the bathtub is almost Conrad's self, and Edgar Masters' cutting edge is in at least one sample of "A Charles River Anthology". I think the honors go to "The Questioning", after Dorothy Canfield's manner and turn...
...usual, most of our knowledge must come from the secret archives of the university; but the manner in which we first got on the trail of the Qua Quan Quot was peculiar, not to say gruesome. I was digging on the edge of the eliff overlooking the Urubamba Canyon when my pick struck on a rock that rang hollow. By careful investigation, I finally discovered the entrance to a cave, halfway down the cliff, and almost inaccessible from above. My adventures in entering the cave might fill a volume. The mouth had been completely stopped...
...whole difficulty in Mexico lies far deeper; it is the total lack of any strong tradition to use as a cornerstone in building up a government, English speaking peoples have established themselves into strong, firmly-knit nations all over the world, and the underlying secret of their success has been the Angio-Saxon tradition of the common law, as deeply ingrained as the English stock itself. Germans have held together through common inheritance of the agelong tradition of loyalty to the chief, handed down from the wandering tribes of the "Germania" in Tacitus's day. France, shaken by revolutions half...
With a record of 22 years in the Secret Service, Mr. Burns has had a brilliant career, and has made a name for himself in tracing and capturing notorious counterfeiters and forgers. Among his coups was the capture of Taylor and Bredell of Philadelphia, who made the Monroe head hundred-dollar silver ceritficate, declared even by government experts to be genuine...