Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forebodings. In his Forest Hills house and in his Lake Success office, Lie treasures a secret gadget: a loudspeaker connected with the U.N. public-address system which permits him to follow the debate in any U.N. committee room. Frequently, when he hears something he dislikes, Lie picks up the phone and passes a tip to an aide on the scene...
...Stanley worked on vaccines to use against influenza and Japanese encephalitis. (He handled the deadly encephalitis virus himself, rarely letting others touch it.) Now he is back at basic virus research, trying to find out how these living-dead things reproduce. There, he believes, lies the secret of life...
...present day, with the emphasis in great centers of learning no longer on the problems of right and wrong, but rather on the problems of right and left. Let us look at conservative Yale today, with the Skull and Bones and the Book and Snake hinting of the secret caucus, and the New Haven Railroad still running two hours late...
Conspicuous around the "campus" are the mysterious sanctums of the secret societies. No living soul, supposedly, knows the membership of these organizations save the members themselves, and no person of the outside world has even seen a member in the act of entering the building. The Book and Snake sanctum, as an example, is a plain white stone cubical structure surrounded by a massive iron fence and having no visible means of entrance. Meetings it is rumored, are held at midnight, but that's only hearsay...
...Most secret of the secret groups, perhaps, are the Followers of Hogan, of whom little is known. Some say their patron saint is a common domestic animal, maybe even a cat. Be that as it may the clan, though it rarely convenes, is summoned with the immortal words: "The Followers of Hogan will meet at Hogan's Grave at midnight tonight. Hogan would want it that...