Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once including 2,000,000 members but now halved by government efforts, the Poro, secret religious society, was the chief object of Harley's investigations. He brought back a collection of more than 300 of the wooden ceremonial masks used by Poro members...
...spot to which Generalissimo & Mme Chiang have fled was a military secret this week. Their job is now to wage against Japan such guerrilla warfare as General Sandino hurled from his Nicaraguan mountains against the forces of Calvin Coolidge. To such a resourceful man as Chiang the fight is not necessarily hopeless. Japan is not the U. S. Her resources have already been badly strained and it is conceivable that if the fight is sufficiently long and costly, it may break her economically. Nor is China Nicaragua. She is so large that any invader inevitably has long lines open...
...Schwarze Korps also came out against those Nazis who wish to displace Christmas with a pagan winter festival and to substitute Balder for Christ. Balder, God of Light in Norse mythology, was invulnerable to everything except mistletoe. The God of Evil, Loki, Balder's enemy, found out his secret, persuaded the blind god Hoder to kill Balder by throwing a sprig of mistletoe...
Violin makers, even chemists and acoustical engineers, have taken Stradivari's instruments apart to see what makes them so good. One theory is that the unusually lustrous and transparent varnish Stradivari used had something to do with the Strad tone. But Antonio Stradivari's secret, like his grave, is still undiscovered. Where those bones are today, and what makes a Strad a Strad, nobody knows...
...made $21,000. Next spring Thomas Mann will get $15,000 for his 15 lectures. For the 23 lectures on Sinclair Lewis' crowded schedule, he will get $23,000. Although their agent makes the rates of such headliners as Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt and Aldous Huxley a carefully guarded secret, their net return will probably not equal the $33,000 that Dale Carnegie will be paid for his 55 inspirational talks in 55 towns...