Word: guardedness
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The acoustics of the Garden are guarded by an anti-echo covering of cork on the walls, so that the arean normally devoted to sports may on occasion be devoted to the arts with a concert or opera entertaining the customers.
¶ In Vienna, a little room in an upholsterer's house was draped in black, lit with candles. A hundred years ago it was Schubert's death chamber. Last week it was empty save for an altar and a marble bust. Yet there, for tribute, gathered highest dignitaries...
The cloak of unprecedented secrecy which veiled Monday's practice session for the University gridiron forces once again descended over Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. No definite information concerning the activities of the coaches and players within the well-guarded walls of the Stadium could be gleaned from the official spokesman...
Eleven-Year-Old. Red Russia's birthday was November 7. Sadly enough, it could not be celebrated by the two famed founders of the Soviet State: Lenin & Trotsky. Dead is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, called "Lenin" (TIME, Jan. 28). Banished is Leiba Bronstein, called "Leon Trotsky" (TIME, Jan. 30). Today...
Guarded deeply in a Paris cellar is a long platinum bar. When its temperature is that of melting ice (0° Centigrade, 32° Fahrenheit) two marks on that bar are exactly one metre apart. That Paris metre is the modulus of the world's weights and measures.* If...