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Word: secretion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was too much for members of the investigating subcommittee. Its members, thanks largely to the stern and judicial guidance of North Carolina's frock-coated old Clyde Hoey, had conducted themselves with rare restraint. They immediately released all secret testimony concerning Vaughan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: What Woufd Harry Say? | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...note charged these atrocities to the personal account of Yugoslav Interior Minister Alexander Rankovic, who spent part of 1946 in Moscow learning his business from Soviet Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Fur Flies | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Distractions. Aside from their kicks and strokes, the secret of Japanese swimming success appeared to lie in their ascetic, priestlike dedication to the sport. Year in & year out, there are no drinks, no smokes, "no girls." They go to bed at 9 p.m. Three times a day they take gymnastic exercises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World-Shaker | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Recalling that he was once a British secret agent, Moscow's Literary Gazette pilloried Author Somerset Maugham as a creature of Wall Street bosses in the "spiritual disarmament of the masses." The paper also took a dim view of Literary Lights T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Edith and Osbert Sitwell as servants of "American cosmopolite expansionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Off the Chest | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

After a sordid divorce from Baron Wrangel, Siri married Strindberg. He wrote furiously-learned history (Sweden's Relations to China and the Tartar Lands), a religious play (The Secret of the Guild), a novel (The Red Room) for which he was denounced as an atheist and a radical. In 1884 he briefly became a popular hero when he was brought to trial (and acquitted) for committing blasphemy in print. He once called Christianity a religion for "women, eunuchs, children and savages." When his four-year-old son asked him whether God could see in the dark, Strindberg answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poppa Could See in the Dark | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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