Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monument to this ambition. He spent his fortune lavishly on erection of buildings, selection of a capable faculty, and in attempting to make his university a true seat of newworld culture. But his solution of the food problem, of so much interest to the modern collegian, remains a secret. There is, on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener, a draft of a letter written by the Great Democrat to a friend concerning menus at the University...
...latter, many a layman recalled, is a genius of wide and varied activities. It was he who devised the method now so common of thawing frozen water pipes by passing electricity through them. Color photography and extensive researches on light have earned him important medals. He has studied secret signaling. He has written diverting fiction as well as three volumes on physical optics. His woodcuts are well-known, especially those illustrating the nonsense rhymes, How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers. And besides these things he performed, for many months in and around the year 1919, an exhaustive series...
...their essential oils, combining and recombining, adding and subtracting now orange, now pungent juniper, Professor Wood satisfied himself at last that he had the exact formula of essential oils that were added to glycerine, alcohol and distilled water to produce the finest commercial gin. Professor Wood then told his secret to manufacturing chemists and had prepared many tiny vials which he called "Eastwood Essence" and gave to friends at Christmas time. His friends urged him to have more and more vials prepared. In time, Eastwood Essence became almost as popular with some members of the New York Stock Exchange...
...passed in the night. But only with convulsive effort and in the space of a year did Polcastrians rid themselves of Harmer John, as they, first in affection, later in derision and finally in hate, miscalled him. During that year he encountered, with unintentionally poignant results, the public and secret lives of nearly all the town-among others...
...Filipino politicians for their own selfish ends. In the second place, nearly every one of the leaders who have advocated it in public admit that in private that they do not believe the time has yet come for the Americans to withdraw completely from the Islands. Their secret ideal is for complete independence under the protecting arm of the United States, with the right to call on us for unlimited funds to experiment with government and business, and with the expectation that in the event of danger of external aggression our might will protect them...