Word: deviousness
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...almost a sure thing. But suddenly, fortnight ago, Albrecht sought out "Little Otto" in Belgium, knelt before him, acknowledged him as the legitimate King of Hungary, swore fealty (TIME, June 2). In Budapest it was at first assumed that this astounding act must be the result of some particularly devious deal between the Ottoists and the Albrechtists. Last week amid the prostration of Archduchess Isabella the truth came...
...audience were mixed. There were those who resented the Bishop's political apostasy in the last presidential campaign (he a Democrat campaigned for Hoover, to defeat Smith, the Wet). There were those who despised him for "gambling" through a bucket shop, those who revered him for his skillful, devious, successful fight for Prohibition laws, those who admired him no matter what...
...French) and New York Rio and Buenos Aires (U. S.) continued crackling up from South America last week (TIME, Feb. 17), ominous thunderclouds of air trouble rumbled on the transatlantic horizon. Diplomatic protests from the U. S. and Germany were being launched at the actions of France, who, by devious and somewhat obscure methods, was making a determined effort to get control of South American air lanes...
...Harvard School of Business Administration, Professor Philip Cabot, 57, teaches incipient timocrats the devious financial ways of public utilities companies. His brother, Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot, four years older, is a professor at the Harvard Medical School. Philip's twin, Dr. Hugh, taught at the Harvard Medical School from 1910 to 1918. In 1919 he became Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan, was made the school's Dean two years later...
...sons who cannot maintain his watery equilibrium, comes as a pleasant indication of the University's continued experimentation in the field of curricular requirements. However, another hurdle more or less in the college race means little to the weary undergraduate after a few years practice dodging the devious man-traps lurking in and about the A.B. degree...