Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this New Dealers abandoned their discreet silence on old-age pensions, accused Republicans of trying to "intimidate" labor. In his speech at Worcester, last week, Franklin Roosevelt volleyed...
...matters now stand, tutors are overburdened with students, many of their tutees lack the interest and ability to gain by their efforts and expenditure of time. Yet the enlargement of the staff is financially impossible. The obvious solution is a discreet reduction of students working under the tutorial system based on careful observation of their ability during the crucial sophomore year...
...troops" of the Austrian Heimwehr had fortnight ago divided in a split so drastic that Vienna Heimwehr Leader Major Emil Fey last week actually challenged to a duel the aristocratic founder of the Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Sly Dr. Schuschnigg has for months been taking discreet measures to under mine the Prince's power and last spring jockeyed him out of the post of Vice-Chancellor (TIME, May 26). When...
...rate discreet questionaires went out to the "carefully sifted" undergraduates yesterday requesting such anatomical data as "Where is your family's seat (or home)?" The words in parenthesis were added, it is suspected, for reasons obvious to the lay mind...
...Actually discreet Prince "Benno" stayed home. Bands blared and standards were clipped to the ground as beloved Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands waddled in to read the speech from the Throne opening Parliament. As usual, the State paper was written by close-cropped and sagacious Premier Hendrikus Colijn. With Dutch industry now joining in the general world industrial pick-up springing from Rearmament. Her Majesty could and did sound an optimistic note as to Treasury finance and the general economic condition of The Netherlands last week, in sharp contrast to the bucket of cold retrenchment Her Majesty was obliged...