Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last few years the Nanking Government has paid a subsidy to the rival Canton Government which has always taken the money while pulsating with opposition-now secret, now blatant-to Generalissimo Chiang. Last week Canton's blatancy became a scream as her Government, headed by General Chen Chi-tang, who had just received an especially large subsidy in the hope of squaring him, telegraphed to Nanking a demand that the Generalissimo resign...
...therefore to lay Christ on the bottom; as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning; and seeing the Lord only giveth wisedome, let everyone seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him, Prov...
...always been one of our secret ambitions to cozen one of those impeccably smug young men who glide around examination halls, dealing out bluebooks, and making noisome speeches. But it appears that someone beat us to it. There was, it appears, a wager between two amiable fellows, the gist of which was that proctors were or were not worth their salt. And the upshot was that the more intelligent of the two had to prove his point...
...Vriendt, able Dutch Jew, settled in Jerusalem, was a tower of. strength to the Agudist party-orthodox, devout, antipolitical Jews, friendlier then to the devout Arabs than to the freethinking, politically-minded Zionists. But De Vriendt had two secret weaknesses: one was writing agnostic verse, the other was an Arab boy. He thought no one knew about either, but when the boy's family found out and his life was threatened, his friend Irmin of the British Secret Service discovered one of De-Vriendt's frailties. Knowing the perilous political situation in Jerusalem and fearing the consequences...
With workmanly pride the Nazi Secret Police announced last week that they had just arrested 2,300 Communist suspects throughout Germany, confiscated 2,500 tons of "illegal literature," expect to prosecute 1,000 of their captives for high treason...