Word: veils
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...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...
...important delegate whom the U. S. did not see was roly-poly Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. A veteran of most world conferences since 1921, he has an annoying habit of puncturing the complacency of European statesmen by attacking the empty phrases they use to veil their lack of accomplishment, knowing well that every sally at the expense of the bourgeois world brings him salvos of applause from Moscow. Not one peep came from M. Litvinov last week. Observers believed he would work hard and say little for many days to come. Theoretically a world economic conference should mean nothing...