Word: stealth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...they conceal books which they have been reading by placing them where they can find them, but where it is hoped others will not find them. Either of these things a man may very easily do if he is willing to put himself in the position of doing by stealth what he knows he could not do openly without being excluded from the Library. Such cases are difficult to detect. They are doubtless oftener seen by other readers than by the officers of the Library...