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Word: secretively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hitherto it had proved impossible to gain general acceptance of any definite figure in respect to any of the huge sums involved. But the Young Memorandum, secret, was understood to lay down as fixed beyond all need of further dickering this principle: Germany will pay the Allies not less than the total they owe the United States in War debts-namely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Young Memorandum | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Last October the federal grand jury in Florida returned a secret indictment against Congressman Michaelson, charging him with illegally importing "six quarts of John Haig whiskey, two quarts of creme de menthe liquor, one quart of taffel Akavait, one quart of creme de cacao, one quart of cherry brandy and one keg of plum Barbaucourt." In November, Congressman Michaelson was elected to the House for the fifth time. Last February he voted for the Five & Ten (Jones) Law as commanded by the Anti-Saloon League. Last week a warrant was out for his arrest on the Florida indictment. Bond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Drinks For Drys | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Meanwhile in Washington Canadian Minister Vincent Massey took over the case from Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador, because of the registry of the schooner. Secret notes and explanations passed back and forth between the U. S. capital and Ottawa and London. Three U. S. departments puzzled over the problem, namely, State, Treasury and Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I'm Alone | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...French, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, three years ago indicated their daring to make such tests. What results, if any, they had, so far they have kept secret. Nearly three years ago, also, Dr. Serge Voronoff, gland grafter, implanted human female sex organs in Nora, happy chimpanzee and artificially impregnated her. Nora apparently conceived. But no baby was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ape Woman | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...could be so upset at a munificent gift, attached to a clause that the Houses to be built with the money be lived in--dormitories which read like Aladdin's Fairy Palaces? Even the magazines for the tables have been minutely listed, to avoid slighting any individual taste. A secret suspicion occurs to us--can it be--softly, while we whisper--perhaps it is only Harvard's pride in its "indifference" that is offended! It may be that they are resenting this assumption that they are like any other students, that their welfare must be looked after by benevolent despots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Woman Of It | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

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