Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret of England's glory, according to Maurois, was not the character of her people, it was not climate or her natural impregnability, it was her isolation. Before the advent of the airplane, the submarine, and the speedier steamboat, England was open to attack from the water, and efforts such as the Spanish Armada, when fleets of sailing vessels were the chief cause for worry, bring to light her virtual isolation. To this "miracle" more than any other is due the unique individuality which exists in that small country. To this are owed the great achievements along literary and along...
Pravda explained: "It is only necessary to understand that any commission of error or act, even a heavy crime, if admitted and not hidden, if brought to the knowledge of organs of Soviet power, constitutes much smaller guilt than a secret agreement with the enemy for fulfillment of espionage commissions...
...Give up all secret vices. The German secret police keep a file on Soviet citizens, all neatly classified under such headings as "fondness for drink," "political instability," "late hours," "dishonesty and moral perversions...
...French portraitist who painted the famed September Morn; after long illness; in Paris. The model, who for two summers (1910-1911) stood ankle deep in chilly Lake Annecy while he painted slowly and meticulously, is now the wife of a French industrialist whose name he has kept a secret. Said Painter Chabas, who only last month began "involuntary retirement": "Although several fortunes have been made from my picture, nobody was thoughtful enough to send me even a box of cigars...
Writing for the current number of the "Nation", Lamb, who is now teaching at Williams, places the responsibility for the trouble on President Conant. He claims that it is an "open secret" that President Conant is out of sympathy with the social sciences in the university and that this biased option is intensified by the members of the Harvard Corporation, namely five corporation lawyers and a fashionable physician who are out to avoid all unfavorable publicity...