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Word: secretively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers were all eyes at her takeoff, but only a few of them knew that she was the secret entry of famed Planemaker Donald Douglas in a forthcoming competition for light Army bombers. Not even visiting Army fliers had been allowed near the guarded room of the Douglas Aircraft Co. factory where the ship, supposed to have a top speed of 400 m.p.h., had been built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Chemidlin's Ride | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...with Sophia to save her. He tried to remember the doctor's instructions but they all rattled around in his head with a great racket and he could only think that it was too late. She died at 12:15. Vag knew it was murder, but it is a secret he keeps locked in his heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

Opposed to the pro-intervention speakers was onetime Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, who has made no secret of his fondness for Herr Hitler. He moralized: "The French Government should be able to say to the Spanish people, once the war is ended, 'I have no Spanish blood on my hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bloodless Hands | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...Nazi campaign. When Mr. Chamberlain sent Lord Runciman to gather impressions of conditions in Czecho-Slovakia, Princess Stephanie hurried to the Sudetenland castle of Prince Max Hohenlohe where the British "mediator" was entertained. In London during crucial weeks of the Czech Crisis, she was able to arrange the secret meetings between Man Friday Wiedemann and top-ranking Britons. A frequent hostess to Captain Wiedemann, the Princess squired him about in influential circles in the U. S. last year when he visited the country unofficially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Missions | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...military mission arrived to teach the hastily arming Ruthenians the art of warfare. A Ukrainian "Free Corps" was formed, while the Carpatho-Ukrainian militia named their organization after Colonel Eugene Konovaletz, former Ukrainian leader murdered in Amsterdam last year when an assassin, rumored to be of the Soviet secret police, placed a time bomb in his overcoat pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: Liberation | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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