Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats' 1944 convention, for instance, Franklin D. Roosevelt having the nomination securely salted away, the big story was the selection of a Vice President. It began with a pre-convention meeting of party bosses in the White House, continued through innumerable secret and widely separated caucuses at the Chicago convention, involved the famed C.I.O. Political Action Committee (the P.A.C.), some adroit maneuvering on the convention floor and, especially, "Private Room H" under the convention platform, where the big bosses were busy putting over their choice...
...beginning of the 19th Century, Artillery Armes (that is the name the author has wished on him) gets mixed up in Florida's trouble under Spanish rule. Golden-haired Artillery works as a U.S. secret agent, but he is pretty confused about which side he is on. The reader will share his confusion. But nothing much is left unexplained about Artillery's love life: he oscillates between fair, proud Beth (daughter of a wealthy merchant) and dark, passionate Dauna (a slave girl). In the big emotional climax, after buying Dauna in a slave mart, Artillery whips...
Three of the honorary degree recipients will speak at this afternoon's meeting. Their names, traditionally a secret, will not be announced until the start of the program...
This sort of thing disturbed the administrators greatly, and for awhile they tried to keep the day of the exercises a secret until the last minute, but that didn't work at all. Then they passed rules saying that students had to come in sober, dark clothes, and forbidding them to consume distilled liquors or plum cake on the big day. They even had a clause against the eating of plain cake as an evasion of the law. There was nothing stopping wine or punch, however, and things went on as merrily as ever...
...secret of Rouxcolor is a lens which is divided into four parts, each with a filter for a different color (red, yellow, green, blue). The four-in-one lens "decomposes" light, making four different images on the film. (A gadget prevents distortion of the images in relation to each other.) When projected through a similar lens, the four-color images are "recomposed" into one color picture. The color of the projected image on the screen is given, not by the film as in other processes, but by the four-in-one lens through which the black-&-white film is projected...