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Word: secretion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three," Lilienthal admitted. One of these, explained Dr. Shields Warren, AEC's director of biology and medicine, was "an outstanding student" named Isador Edelman. Edelman, 29, had applied for a fellowship at the University of California's Berkeley laboratory (where he would have been close to secret work), had been turned down because an FBI check disclosed "derogatory information." But because he "showed extraordinary promise," AEC granted him a $3,750 fellowship at the Harvard Medical School, where he would have no contact with classified work. (At Harvard, Dr. Edelman declared he was an antiCommunist, but admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Change of Front | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...which had been picking the fellows for AEC) agreed to this procedure. Said Lilienthal, completing his change of front: "I have no question at all that we should not provide public funds for anyone who advocates the overthrow of this government by force or violence . . . whether [the work] is secret or non-secret." Just to make doubly sure, O'Mahoney announced he would "write into law a provision of such clarity" that Lilienthal would have no other choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Change of Front | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Despite all the preliminary rowdedow, the country was subdued on election day. Theoretically, the ballot was secret, but few voters used the booths set aside for them. To vote "Yes" (i.e., for the People's Front), the voter simply had to drop an unmarked ballot into the box. But if he wanted to vote "No," he had to make a cross on the ballot. Thus only "No" voters had any reason to walk into the booths; the names of those who did could be carefully noted. By midafternoon, on election day, eligible voters who had not appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Matyas & His Little Lamb | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Secret Service protection? Nonsense, snorted Vice President Alben Berkley, 71. "I'm a big boy now," he declared. "And besides, who would want to harm a young man like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: That Old Feeling | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...secret of keeping horses high in flesh, Missouri-style, is so fundamental that many horsemen pay little heed to it. The secret: hay. When the feed man delivers a bale that doesn't strike Ben's fancy, back it goes. "I can smell hay, or feel it in the dark, and tell whether horses will like it," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Devil Red & Plain Ben | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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