Word: veiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to part the maneuvers' heavy veil of censorship, as it turned out, was Death. Steaming into Pearl Harbor, some 60 assorted U. S. war vessels would not tell where they had been or where they were going, but announced that during the week a flyer had been killed taking off from the Saratoga, one man had been fatally injured in a collision between the destroyers Sicard...
...Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) told how Earth must look to Mars. The Martian astronomer sees a planet bluer than Venus and bigger. If he looks sharp he can see the polar caps shrinking and spreading with the change of seasons. Through rifts in the cloud veil, he discerns great blue-black patches which by spectroscopic analysis he finds, with croaks of envy, to be oceans of water. Heavily wooded areas look dark to him and he has difficulty distinguishing them from the oceans. The Sahara and Arabian Deserts look fairly bright, the clouds three times brighter...
...because they are losing money, but, if there are going to be any endowment funds created to make up deficits, let the sports having the deficits create them--let the teams, after receiving a certain amount from the H.A.A. take care of the deficits themselves. Do not try to veil the true source of the losses by blaming defenseless bystanders...
...matter is that the CRIMSON in its hunt for headlines has so far abnegated its critical function for fear of offending University Hall, that they dare not present even a serious analysis. The Goose must not be embarrassed when she lays the golden eggs; the editors obligingly veil their eyes...
...National Student League jumped to the rescue. Tearing the veil of an innocent gesture from Germany's face, it bared the deed in all its enormity. It discovered an insult and a degradation. Harvard is protected...