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Word: secretively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amiable, that he is lacking in iron, positiveness and determination. . . ." Lately a series of airline crashes (TIME, Feb. 22) has brought more hot coals on Gene Vidal's head. Last week, tired and exasperated, he gave in at last, resigned. Said he, keeping his plans secret: "You can quote me as saying I feel very chipper now. And stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Vidal Out | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...propaganda-in-reverse"-a British attempt to repeat the supremely adroit French move which recently kept the Reichswehr out of Morocco (TIME, Jan. 18). In that case the French Cabinet circulated to the world press the deliberate lie that German forces had already landed at Ceuta, whereas the French Secret Service knew they only planned to do so. Exposed in advance, Dictator Hitler soon professed his "non-aggression," landed no Germans in Ceuta, and Der FÜhrer may not strike at Czechoslovakia during the Coronation if his Nazi schemes are sufficiently anticipated and aired to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Golden Frame | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Royal Marriage. A bridesmaid at the wedding of Princess Mary, only daughter of King George & Queen Mary, was wholesome and attractive young Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, today Queen Elizabeth. When the present King George VI presently sought his sister's bridesmaid's hand, she made no secret of her Scottish impression that he had been sent. She unaffectedly told His Royal Highness that she could not, she really could not accept a suitor who had been sent. This was in her father's frowning Glamis Castle where, according to Shakespeare, Macbeth murdered Duncan, and the English press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Golden Frame | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Screened off in one corner of the Boeing plant is the growing skeleton of an even larger four-motored bomber, all details of which are still deeply secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Delight on the Duwamish | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...past there have been good guesses on U. S. can statistics but official sales figures have always been a dark secret. American Can got an injunction against SEC to prevent release of its old data but finally capitulated in its 1936 report, out last fortnight. Last week National Can, a subsidiary of McKeesport Tin Plate and No. 3 U. S. can maker, also revealed its sales. Though Continental's report still omitted the vital figures, it was now possible to fill in most of the hitherto sketchy can picture. Total can production amounted to some $375,000,000. American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Can Competition | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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