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Word: reveal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choice of the officials of the meet has fallen on New York not because it is the largest city in the country, but principally because it is central for the competing colleges. A games at the score sheet of last Saturday's meet will reveal how many entrants come from the New York district or farther south. To ask the hundreds of athletes from distant colleges to make the journey to Boston would be an imposition on coaches and teams. Harvard and Boston have become famous for their athletic hospitality; they must be careful that hospitality does not become greed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON--POUR LE SPORT | 3/5/1929 | See Source »

Anyone who knows Ray Wilbur and his work must resent as I resent this "Yes man" [TIME, Feb. 11] implication. I am sure that time will reveal and TIME will publish news of Ray Lyman Wilbur which will prove the injustice of this imputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...generation ago a student looked upon his room as his home. He often stayed in the same place three or four years. He took an interest in making that room comfortable and attractive. He hung the walls with signs whose origin he was not always willing to reveal. He covered his sofa with cushions which he maintained were made by lovely girls of his acquaintance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Explains House Plan to Graduates in Speech In St. Louis---Emphasizes Social Benefits to be Derived | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...plates of flesh . . . faulty construction, faulty anatomy." He pointed to "poor" shadows, an off-perspective eye, awkward drawing. He defined technique as the "handwriting" of an artist whereby a "friend" can always recognize his work. Leonardo, he felt, could never have been a botchy anatomist, nor did the picture reveal his technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Duveen on da Vinci | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...White House refused to reveal the amount of the Coolidge contribution. The Community Chest officials were tightlipped. But a wicked rumor flew around the capital that the President's check was for "Twenty-five dollars and no cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: U. S. Taj | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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