Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laid out vast stretches of the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern roads. Near Havre, Mont., there is a statue to jog the memory. It stands on a bleak ridge where, after visits to the camps of treacherous Blackfeet Indians, Mr. Stevens learned that below the ridge was a secret pass which the Indians said was haunted. Mr. Stevens found the pass alone, but lost his homeward way when night fell. Munching a frozen biscuit, gnawing a strip of raw pork, Mr. Stevens paced all night, dreaming "exactly how the trains of the Great Northern would go sweeping through those mountain...
...nationals does not depend on 'treaty right.'" ¶ Defeated by a majority of 178 a Laborite resolution against the Government's proposal to reform the trade union law (TIME, Feb. 21). Since the exact nature of the changes which the Cabinet will propose have been kept secret, the debate last week was ingeniously based on conjecture. Said Laborite John R. Clynes: "I don't need to know what the Government is going to propose. Anyone can guess. . . . The Government will attempt to make strikes unlawful, except in circumstances where they are doomed to failure." Sir John...
...capital investment (TIME, Jan. 17) negotiations continued all week between British representative Owen O'Malley, and the Nationalist Foreign Minister Eugene Chen. An agreement was finally signed between them relating to the British holdings abandoned at Hankow, but the text of this agreement was kept secret...
...close friend of Joseph Conrad for more than 10 years, and collaborated with him in several novels, such as "The Secret Agent", and "Romance." Since the death of Conrad, Mr. Ford has been called the finest stylist writing in English...
...South. Of ancient and distinguished lineage, he rose to fame as a scholar and teacher of English literature. "Religion and education; not two but one and inseparable" is the motto of Duke University. Last autumn he added a school of religion to his university, but it is no secret that this scholar-gentleman looks forward most eagerly to establishing a great medical school. Meanwhile five sons attach him to youth...