Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greek were compulsory; today most still study Latin, about half Greek. Etonians spend their last two years at Eton specializing in some favorite subject (e.g., history, science) under a tutor's guidance, go as fast as they like. Eton's educational reputation: tops. Eton's educational secret: "We give the boys time to educate themselves...
...Secrets. In World War I, Hansard staffers showed up at every secret session, were invariably excluded, locked their notebooks in the editor's cupboard at night with the pages blank. They did not even try to cover the secret debates of World War II. Hansard's familiar blue-book (white since 1943) was often delayed a day by bombings, but never missed an issue. Today Hansard sells (at 6d.) or gives away 9,876 copies an issue, the biggest circulation in its history...
...Humpty Dumpty told Alice, it was simply a question of who was master. After weeks of secret palaver in London, the Compagnie FranÇaise des Petroles withdrew its objections to the $200 million deal for Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. to go into Saudi Arabia (TIME, March 24). But Standard's announcement of settlement was tinged with annoyance: before the deal could be closed, it had to be approved by Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian. And last week, Gulbenkian wasn't having...
Only living U.S. authors to make the grade: John Steinbeck (a reissue of The Grapes of Wrath), Upton Sinclair (the Lanny Budd cycle), Ralph Ingersoll (Top Secret), Elliott Roosevelt (As He saw It), Erskine Caldwell, whose short stories about the seamy side of Southern life will top all other U.S. offerings with a 100,000-copy edition. Said the director of one Moscow publishing house last week: "We didn't see anything else that would interest Soviet readers...
...secret of Bend Sinister's effect is that it places side by side, heightened by the selectivity of an adept and angry writer, the most moronic abominations of totalitarianism and the finest lights of the secular European mind. The hoaxed and flattered humanity of the mass man is contrasted with the honest and deeply suffering humanity of the individual; but all this is done so lightly that it seems a mocking and superior amusement...