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Word: concealment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden grimness developed at Peiping, now in its 30th day of siege, but the form it took cannot be divulged. The censor is obdurate. He is not convinced that the facts he is trying to conceal will sooner or later leak out . . . Let the censor explain why you cannot say a shell exploded about 100 feet from the office where two Americans were working . . . Let him explain why you cannot say other shells exploded . . . Finally, let the censor answer the question, 'If the Reds shell a city, do they or don't they know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Uncensored | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

After photographing the birds carefully, Dr. Orbell let them go and returned to civilization in a state of ornithological ecstasy. If the Lake Te Anau country could conceal for 50 years a bird as big as a takahe, enthusiasts feel that it may have moas too, perhaps even giant moas twelve feet tall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: News from Lake Te Anau | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Last week, Elizabeth was wearing a saucy cone of green felt on her head to conceal the place that was shaved during the operation. She was well enough to board a plane for home. She was bright and cheerful; there were no signs of nervous symptoms. She would have a long rest; then, if the operation had been a complete success, a new future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chance for Elizabeth | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...sure the CRIMSON dislikes the record of intimidation of Progressives which leads many Wallace supporters to conceal their opinions. I'm even surer that those who made up the poll recognize that such intimidation exists. If that is so, why didn't the CRIMSON, in the interest of accuracy, allow students to cast unsigned votes? Chandler Davis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Straw Poll | 10/29/1948 | See Source »

...dear Madam, or rather I have drawn myself, into an honest confession of a simple fact. Misconstrue not my meaning; doubt it not, nor expose it. The world has no business to know the object of my Love, declared in this manner to you, when I want to conceal it . . " Sally Fairfax answered his letter at once, but tactfully avoided any mention of his romantic confession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virginians | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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