Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard has learned by the New York Times that her Bureau of Traffic Research is migrating to Yale. University officials have been completely taken by surprise, for they were not admitted to the secret before the general public. The circumstances immediately call to mind the case of Professor Baker's "47 Workshop," and arouse dark thoughts and suspicions of another New Haven "grab." But consideration will show these to do utterly baseless...
...Vice Premier Kosior rushed before the Council of People's Commissars, declared that the early ice was a factor which Professor Schmidt and his scientific colleagues are learned enough to have figured out in advance. The professor was called before the commissars, but what he said was kept secret last week. Soon the charge of wrecking was hurled, with an official announcement that, acting upon the report of Vice Premier Kosior. the Council of People's Commissars "consider it no accident" that last week 800 Soviet citizens were in peril aboard icebreakers jammed in frozen Siberian waters...
Commissioner Walker's 1,100 pages of indictment and proposals are the result of three years' investigation. They would still be the Commission's secret had not the Commission learned that communication circles had somehow "tapped its wires." Rather than give A. T. & T. a chance to prepare a counterpunch while FCC studied the report, lively little Chairman Frank R. McNinch decided to make Commissioner Walker's findings public at once. But he specifically told Congress that it "is not a report by the Commission, but is instead a report submitted to the Commission...
...bank examiner discovers that the secret of Lee's success is heavy bond forgery. It is the end of his career, but only half of What People Said. The rest of the story unfolds the scope of Lee's crookedness, which runs like a sulphurous fuse from Banker Norssex to the Progressive Governor's Mansion. According to Junior and his wife, it sputters just as stinkingly in the homes of the suddenly "unbearably honest" Oklaradans, since they tolerate a society that breeds embezzlers and hypocrites, as it breeds the unemployed who snarl so ominously in Athena...
...most interesting entertainment was that provided by William and Mary, once the Harvard men were given to understand the significance of curious Crown-and-Seven symbols painted along campus walks. They were informed that the college authorities have appointed a Secret Seven from the student body to enforce the "Honor System" so far as actions of co-eds on dates are concerned, and the painted symbols are menacing reminders of that fact