Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote as equals in a new "House of Parliament" hurried, last week, representatives of the toilers and officers of the vast Dunlop Rubber Co., near Birmingham. Each proud, contented toiler-"M.P." had been elected by the secret ballots of 150 constituents. A "Constitution" stood ratified by the "House of Parliament," and to it all Dun-loppers pledged allegiance and obedience...
...from it the method of its easy flight. At London last week Capt. Victor Dibovsky-43, aviator since 1908, inventor of gears to permit the firing of bullets through the revolving propellers of airplanes, winner of a British prize for inventiveness-declared that he had solved the problem. The secret lay in a depression of the albatross's back, a dip that allowed the bird to utilize the force of head-winds into which it might be flying. And he had designed, although he had not yet built, a machine for humans to fly albatross-wise. His machine...
...operate by steam force. Therefore it was directly to birds that he turned discerning thoughts. He studied the mechanics of their flights, the comparative anatomy of their bodies. He built flying machines and, superb and practical engineer, he knew before he tried them that they would not work. Some secret of nature baffled him. Capt. Dibovsky, lesser Leonardo, is more confident, sure he knows his albatrosses...
...spoke as the civilian President of the Republic, but those who listened saw in their mind's eye the great Commander-in-Chief who, in 1914, had flung back the Russian armies from that same East Prussia which he was trying now to save again. German decorum kept secret the nature of the plea made by Old Paul von Hindenburg, but German patriotism made refusal-to the victor of Tannenburg* -impossible. Soon the joint cabinets issued a communique not only approving the experts' plan for direct financial relief to East Prussia but recommending further aid in the form...
...last, Pope and cardinals were left to secret consistory for the actual naming of the four new cardinals whom the Pope had recently mentioned (TIME, Dec. 12, 1927), and of a fifth...