Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ingenious Chinese people do not have enough airplanes, or wish to impress the Japanese by seeming to have more than they possess, they build extra planes of reed and matting construction (see cut). These-parked appetizingly in view-have drawn many a Japanese bomb away from real Chinese planes hidden elsewhere...
Besides sending troops to suppress Nazi agitation in Graz and Linz, there were rumors in Vienna that Chancellor Schuschnigg had hidden troops in all parts of the capital to prepare for an uprising. Meantime he was reported to have ordered Nazi Seyss-Inquart to go to Graz and quiet the Nazis or be dismissed for inefficiency as Minister of Interior...
...long since been silenced. Few Germans today ever see an anti-Nazi publication. A smattering of troublesome pamphlets is still smuggled in the bottom of wheat barges ascending the Rhine from Holland, and such journals as the inflammatory bi-monthly Die Schiffart (Shipping) are printed in New York, hidden in the cargoes of German ships by U. S. longshoremen and sneaked into Germany under German longshoremen's jackets...
...experiments of Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University, who believes in the existence of telepathy and clairvoyance as the result of tests with special "ESP" (ExtraSensory Perception) cards which he has patented. If one of Dr. Rhine's subjects guessed nine or ten right out of 25 hidden cards, he had a good score. To Margery, such scores seemed piddling. Margery challenged Dr. Rhine to sit in at a seance, watch her perform clairvoyance with cards. Dr. Rhine refused unless strict laboratory conditions were imposed. Margery "re-challenged" Dr. Rhine, and there the matter stood...
Redheaded, unscrupulous Prince Andreas Rasonski was so ugly that even peasant girls could not abide him except in the dark. His political ambitions he kept hidden for much the same reason. His model was Napoleon; his goal, to trade Polish military support for Polish independence, with himself as king. To this end he had spent ten years ingratiating himself with a powerful Polish Count, whose beautiful only daughter Dzjunka he schemed to marry in order to get working capital. It was a long shot. Dzjunka made no secret of the fact that he gave her the creeps. And Polish noblemen...