Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since cocky little Finland has not the slightest fear of Japan but hates and fears Japan's No. 1 enemy Russia, Finnish Army officers prepared to give Captain Nishimura every scrap of secret information on how to keep troops and war gear efficiently in action at temperatures down...
...executions and 97 other sentences meted out by Soviet star-chamber courts after the assassination of Dictator Joseph Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). For the first time since the Russian Revolution of 1917, eminent agents of the dread Gay-pay-oo or secret police were themselves dragged before one of the drumhead courts they have made odious...
...later shot, the confessions last week were by far the most important to the Kirov case. Over 100 Russians had been shot for confessing less, some after admitting mere "ideological community" with the "spirit of the crime." What super-punishment could Judge Ulrich mete out to these super-guilty secret police...
With Captain Wood dead, it began to look as if the secret of the Mohawk disaster would remain buried with him in twelve fathoms off Seagirt...
Like many another explosive, nitramon contains ammonium nitrate. It also contains a stable carbon compound (formula secret) which only reluctantly releases its carbon to combine with the nitrate's oxygen. Once detonated, however, nitramon explodes with 40% more force than TNT. It costs less than some grades of dynamite. The company claims that it is impervious to cold, works under water, should make quarry blasting and coal vein stripping completely safe up to the moment of "shooting." Politically timely was the assurance that nitramon's value is strictly limited to peacetime...