Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Journal's exclusive story, quickly picked up by other Manhattan newspapers, was a special survey started last March by 35 WPA investigators to find out whether WPAbsentees needed medical attention. So astounded by the first findings that it had its own investigators trailed, the WPA kept its report secret. By some remarkable prestidigitation the Journal produced a copy, spread it flamboyantly over the front page. Investigators found, the survey stated, that 27% of the 2,084 absentees could not be located at the addresses given, that the residences named turned out to be vacant lots, playgrounds, parks, cinema theatres...
Trotsky's son Syedov was called a money-passer. One of the prisoners said the conspirators in Moscow had given him to be carried to Syedov Trotsky in Berlin a copy of The Arabian Nights. "It served in some way which I do not remember as a secret code book," finished up Prisoner Holzmann, scratching his head with a puzzled...
...told the Dresden artisans to go ahead. First, the skeleton of a young Dresden woman, killed in an accident, was treated with preservative, covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other organs were taken from corpses, made transparent by a secret process, dyed, photographed in color, enlarged, projected on a screen in three dimensions. From these projections artists made tracings which were used by sculptors to model the organs which actually went into the figure. The viscera as well as the glassy frame of the transparent woman are made of a material called cellhorn...
Hopping mad, noncancelable policyholders and a group of stockholders rushed into the court of Superior Judge Henry M. Willis, to whom the case had been transferred. Making no secret of their suspicions, policyholders charged that, as late as the first of this year, false financial statements had been issued showing Pacific Mutual $10,000,000 in the black when there was actually a deficit of more than twice that amount, that Amadeo Peter Giannini's Occidental Life Insurance Co. had offered to buy the company for $10,000,000, and keep all policies in force, although Commissioner Carpenter...
...Thoreau. There is a sunlit, morning mood in all Van Wyck Brooks's writing on Emerson, but he has never equaled his new picture of the unself-conscious Sage of Concord who, with his inexhaustible buoyancy and courage, found in the simple life, in disregard for riches, the secret that unlocked his creative genius Of Hawthorne, Mr. Brooks draws a bolder and darker portrait, seeing him as the link between New England and the Middle Ages. A great writer whose thoughts were always turning on tales of witchcraft and madness, Hawthorne had a genius which was always threatened...