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Word: secretly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rejecting the Harvard Engineering Society's proposition that they substitute Sears Roebuck (advt.) vacuum cleaners for the traditional brooms, the Crimson curlers under the leadership of Caspar W. Berger are embarking on a series of strenuous secret practice sessions in an unused wing of Widener in preparation for Saturday, when they cross brooms with a veteran Kendal Home for the aged aggregation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sweepers Prepare for Old Age Curlers | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

During the whole time Miss X kept secretly in touch with Intelligence, finally tipped them off that Jan. 21, 1938 would be a good day on which to arrest Glading, Williams, Munday and Whomack. They were all caught with highly incriminating papers, according to the Crown, and these included plans for Britain's new super-secret 14-inch naval gun, claimed to be vastly more effective than any other naval weapon of this calibre. Since the Soviet Union is now concentrating on building up the first real Russian navy (TIME, Feb. 28) and is in the market for naval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Miss X | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Lockheed, Curtiss-Wright, Martin, North American Aviation all withdrew from the competition for reasons of their own. Secret plans for "dream planes" were, however, submitted last week by Boeing, Consolidated, Douglas, Sikorsky. With a grand flare of publicity came drawings from the ninth firm, self-invited Seversky, which suggested that the inventive Russian had out-dreamed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Superseversky | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...made no comment on the merit of Seversky's proposed ship, resolutely held secret the other submitted plans. As a $7,000,000 price tag had already been hung on the "Super-Clipper," it was obvious that Seversky had no expectation of getting an order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Superseversky | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...best poem on a suicide yet written in America. Taken all together, the poems are an exciting and, on the whole, trustworthy appeal to all the belligerents who [and only who, if you ask Poet Rukeyser] know the world. Only these, she implies, can be in on the secret of what really happened yesterday at Gauley Bridge, is happening today in Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rukeyser 2 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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