Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comes this new decision to undermine the reserve power of Western Europe and of America, ostensibly in preparation for the day of the great upheaval. Anyone but Nikolai Lenine would be awed by the enormity of the proposal thus given with such calm assurance--at least would keep secret a policy so easy to defeat; not so the Premier. He spreads the news abroad and invites the nations to come and deliver themselves into his hands...
...school children is sound. Sound is his protest against our forgetting the principle that every generation can only climb higher by standing "on the shoulders of its predecessors." But this very surrender to emotionalism, to ignorance, or to mere vanity is proof of a desire to teach not the secret of making a living but the secret of how to live. One may live nobly without being able to read well or write with perfect legibility or to figure accurately. But it is fairly hard to make a living under such handicaps...
Captain Runnells held several important positions during the war. At one time he was in charge of a secret mission sent over to France by the British Government to investigate conditions in the war area. Although he has not announced his subject yet, it is probable that he will relate some of his experiences and explain the need for close cooperation between the two great English speaking nations...
...League of Nations, from which so many good tidings were to be spread around the world, has relegated that principle to the junk-heap of "new world idealism." The Council of the League, now under the control of the old school diplomats, is to conduct its meetings in secret, and withholds its minutes from the contaminating gaze of the public eye. One member only--Lord Robert Cecil--has protested, but to no avail...
...seems to simmer down to the fact that in present-day college athletics and in football particularly, the winning of victories has become more of a business than a sport. The detail in management; the minuteness of coaching necessary to the success of an eleven; the sometimes exaggerated publicity; secret practice, and the huge crowds attending the late season games have encroached on the old-time aim of college sport, which was the development of the undergraduate. The pendulum seems to have swung about as far that way as it will go. It is to be hoped that the swing...