Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boardwalks in the Yard are under water or during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There has not been time for the dull courses to reveal themselves and exams in the hard ones seem far away. The refreshing tang of the first cool days has not yet lost its novelty...
While he invents witty fantasies on the evening's conversation, Cadell senses the macabre truth behind the feast. He leaves with the other guests. But he returns, sinister and languid, to toy with the nerves of both murderers and audience until he chooses to reveal and confirm his suspicions. One of the slayers is then prostrated with fright. Holding the other at bay with a sword cane, Cadell shrills a police whistle as the curtain falls...
...before he is sent to college. It may be that the boy will find that he is totally mistaken. A little actual experience on a farm may convince him that his interest in agriculture is not so deep as it once seemed; some time in a studio may reveal that his talent is not so great as he fancied. In that case, he can always return to college. But, until he has cleared the way for himself, and convinced himself that he belongs in college he will never approach his college work with that singleness of purpose which brings success...
...farms, or gasoline engines, or boats, and he can talk to you almost with eloquence about what makes the bees swarm, or what causes that sputter in your motor car, or how to shoot the sun with a sextant. If you take the trouble to ask, he will perhaps reveal to you his shy ambition to become a ranger in the government forestry service, to join the merchant marine, to be a dairy farmer, or to set up in business with his printing press...
Courtesy Sirs: A careful perusal of all reports of Graf Zeppelin maneuvers fails to reveal the arrangement by which U. S. sailors, soldiers, marines, hangars, et cetera are used to assist a private commercial undertaking. Will TIME testify? FRANCIS J. D 'AMANDA Rochester, X. Y. The U. S. served the Graf Zeppelin out of courtesy to a distinguished visitor; also because the U. S. Navy is an interested student of zeppelining...