Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just how the three Clearing House handicappers combine their predictions to work out the odds quoted to customers is their big trade secret. But they collect their information in a perfectly prosaic manner: they subscribe to 59 daily and Sunday newspapers, study 97 college papers (including the Harvard Crimson and Yale Daily News). "We don't hire coaches or students to work for us as agents," says Hirschfield. But so accurate are his odds over the long run that the rumor-however unfounded-persists that he has knowing operatives on every campus...
Acting as though they were discovering and uncovering a pile of dirty linen, four segregationist members of a congressional subcommittee last week launched a windy investigation into Washington's schools. It was no secret to anyone that the D.C. schools, which started integrating two years ago, were having their troubles. But the committeemen, headed by Georgia's Representative James C. Davis,* were clearly out to make a national noise about integration-and they made some noise...
Late in the fall of 1891 the Dickeys held their initiation. (Santayana refers to the Dickeys in his novel when he mentions the "secret society to which everybody of consequence be longed...
...USSR, they lived in fear of "the terror" of sudden arrest by secret police. They resent the "politicalization" of all aspects of life...
Fabian as Lover. Biographer Ervine was a close friend of Bernard and Charlotte Shaw for more than 30 years. If Shaw had had some beastly secret tucked up his sleeve. Ervine could now disclose it-and send Shaw's stock booming. But the new material in his book, consisting of unpublished correspondence with the Shaws and diaries kept by G.B.S., merely stresses what has always been widely feared-that, though Shaw "enjoyed carnal concurrence" with women, he thought he had greater talent as a playwright...