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Word: secretions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Further along, someone was saying what a fine group this freshman class was, theoretically anyway. "More potential athletes and newspaper editors," added the gentleman, by way of example. In another corner: "The secret is to work not hard, but intelligently. Find the intellectual speed at which you work the most efficiently, and stay there...Find your pace...Remember everyone can't be top dog around here...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...Secret Weapon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Adams Fight For Title Today | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

Adams may produce a secret weapon in the form of fullback Guck Mahoney, who has announced that be may play tomorrow in spite of hour exams this week and lack of practice. Mahoney, former netfolk, Virginia, Naval Base star, is reputed to have thrown a 70-yard pass in his first intra-service game and can run 100-yards in ten seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Adams Fight For Title Today | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

...gooding 19th Century Robin Hood who carried the honor of the Old South in one hand and a parcel for the poor in the other. Few in the ballad audience wanted it otherwise. If the storybook Jesse was short on flesh and blood, at least he satisfied a secret, belly-warming yen for bygone Wild West heroism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer from Missouri | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Several years ago, Robert Pinkerton II,* head of the same Pinkerton National Detective Agency which plodded patiently (but unsuccessfully) along in Jesse James's dust for 16 years, decided that he had had enough. The bold bandit who stared grimly out of the agency's secret files was no kin to the song-and-celluloid desperado whom everybody knew. Pinkerton decided to open the files and let the world see what its hero looked like all dressed up in his police record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer from Missouri | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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