Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indicted, two alone (Darnand, Laval) had been given death and most of the others had been flatly, or virtually, acquitted. In the Chamber, Communist deputies demanded the High Court be reorganized; they demanded an Assembly-elected prosecutor (rather than an impartial state appointee), and wanted the jury's secret deliberations opened to the public...
...physiologists and bacteriologists assembled in secret laboratories under the Chemical Warfare Service. With them worked 3,800 Army & Navy men. In gleaming glassware grew the world's most vicious germs. A flask of cloudy liquid or a blob of nutrient jelly might contain the makings of a pandemic...
...always had a full day of it. Along with his art, he occupied himself in learning seven languages, riding his Spanish horses every afternoon, and discovering everything there was to know about ancient sculpture, cameos, and Italian architecture. He crowned a career of half-secret diplomacy (interlarded with profitable royal portrait commissions) by temporarily reconciling Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England. The master seemed to have all the minor gifts too-equanimity, charm, industry and good looks...
R.D.S. does not put on plays, but rents its sets of plays to amateur groups, gives them free dramatic advice. Part of the advice is Martin Browne's definition of the objective of a religious play-and the secret of his success...
Stark Realism. Locke's philosophy was elaborated and to some extent corrected by the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. Hegel followed Kant, and Marx followed Hegel. One secret of the "arrogance" displayed by Germany and later by Communist Russia toward Britain and the U.S., Northrop observes, has been their assurance that their philosophical foundations were more modern and hence superior...