Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...This purpose is realized only if all who consult the room consent to use the books in a spirit of fairness and with due regard for the rights of others. It is defeated whenever individuals carry away books, even temporarily, for their own advantage, or when they conceal books which they have been reading by placing them where they can find them, but where it is hoped others will not find them. Either of these things a man may very easily do if he is willing to put himself in the position of doing by stealth what he knows...
...stop being satisfied with creditable defeat?" With this sentence the Globe writer introduces his arraignment of our attitude toward football. The accusation angers us at first; but how is the outsider to know how bitter each successive defeat is to a great majority of undergraduates and graduates? We conceal our disappointment under praises of the "splendid showing," and as a result each year is a repetition of the last and we have the not altogether enviable reputation of being "gentlemanly losers." Is it not time to throw aside the thin veil of easy-going optimism and to make it clearly...
...present system of street railways is grossly overcapitalized. The stock quotations and selling ability of the shares of these companies indicate enormous profits to the roads and dividends from 5 to 10 per cent. The roads themselves in endeavoring to conceal the tremendous profits have deliberately falsified their accounts. By this means they have increased the apparent charges and made the dividends seem normal...
...with a clean record does not fear exposure; his past needs no attention, and he has no ghosts that he fears will rise. A clean record is the only secret of a strong character. A man cannot be strong when he is constantly trying to conceal something in his past. If he would be strong he must have a character with no stains. He cannot stop and discuss every moral question that arises, but he must be so set in his character that he can take only one side of a moral issue. A man with a clean record...
...football, the practice of the University eleven was by no means as good as might have been expected under the conditions. As in the Brown game, the superior weight of the University line enabled it to gain distance in yesterday's practice; but this superiority in weight did not conceal the lack of concerted action by the line, the men continually charging too high...