Word: veils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Embellished by startling success in World Series predications, Fates once more consent to breathe aside veil that covers future. Gazing into void I see esteemed friend John Harvard once more making a Lane through all opposition and Lockeing the score with a Well-made pass. Wildcats realize this, for New Hampshire Vaughnteth not itself, nor doth it expect to run Wilde. They may even be Moody at the end of the game, as is won't be a Haphey day if their end of the score is Leen. Humbly suggest Harvard will keep New Hampshire side of scoreboard pure White...
...Under your wise leadership, may Harvard be a preeminent focus for true scholarship, and patient endeavor to push back a little the veil of mystery that everywhere surrounds us. Here may inspired teachers convince the best of the aspiring youth of this distracted country that man cannot live by bread alone: that in a just estimate of the real values of life, the spiritual far outweighs the material...
...British woman. Last week King Ghazi ended that by stepping into his Throne Room before the members of his family and his Cabinet and betrothing himself to Adviser Ali's second daughter, his own first cousin, Princess Alija. Since she had lived all her life behind a veil, all Ghazi knew of his fiancee was that she was 22 and "reported to be very beautiful." The Government announced that King Feisal, dead last week only eleven days, had wanted the betrothal. Observers agreed that King Ghazi's quick choice of the daughter of his pro-British uncle meant...
...president suggested an interesting comparison between his own field and business administration. Chemistry, as a practical profession, evolved from alchemy only when the chemist Boyle wrote a book revealing the known facts candidly and ridiculing the veil of secrecy which had caused distrust of the whole science. "At present," said President Conant, "we are lifting the veil from the field of business and economics and it too is emerging as a highly useful profession...
...perhaps the most solemn natural spectacle in the world. First the earth burst open, then a glacier, next an ancient lake hollowed out and smoothed over this vast and verdant chasm. From its flat, pine-needled floor, grey monoliths rise 3,000 ft. around its edges. Bridal Veil Falls trails softly to nothingness from the top of the west rim. In the middle of the valley is Yosemite, which has a comfortable hotel and one of the coldest swimming pools on earth...