Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister Aristide Briand of France, anxious to conciliate, was hampered by the report made at Paris last week by Marshal Foch that Germany has not entirely fulfilled her disarmament obligations under the Versailles Treaty. (Specifically German forts on the Polish frontier have been strengthened instead of dismantled; and the secret training of young men for military service has not entirely ceased.) The Allied Council of Ambassadors, administering the Versailles Treaty, telegraphed M. Briand at Geneva that they would only indorse the substitution of League control for military control if the German Foreign Minister would give positive assurance that his country...
Several specialty number have been arranged by the Union officials, the details of the specialty acts are being kept secret. Refreshments will be served about midnight...
...America. Raphael Diaz, the New York metropolitan tenor, will sing the "Astrologer's Song," from the "Coq d Or," of Rimsky-Korsakoff, and also a selection of Spanish songs. Finally, the Philharmonic will play Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony," Wagner's "Rienze Overture," and Wolf-Ferrais' "Overture to the Secret of Suzanne." Such a program, with possible additions, promises a most entertaining evening," said Miss Leginska...
...When the War broke out, we radio engineers, all of us, at once fell to adapting radio to warfare. For my part, I returned to experiments of my boyhood with the short-wave range, seeking to devise means of secret communication. We evolved the 'direction finder' for spotting the enemy's sending stations and giving our own ships their bearings. I worked out a rudimentary (compared to now) system of 'narrow-casting,' using skeleton parabolic mirrors to converge my waves in a beam, thus saving generative power and preventing messages from being diffused 'broadcast...
...Harrow, but lost no time thereafter in returning to his parents' homeland, where he was graduated by Yale in 1910. He has embraced literature and yachting ever since, is unmarried and free to spend himself upon a third enthusiasm, his society at Alma Mater, the Elihu Club. The secret of writing biographical history, he declares, is a knowledge of the card-index system of any substantial public library. For writing Cordelia Chantrell he evidently added to his historical method a study of fine prose and much thought on the fine temper of his Southern acqaintances...