Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cover-to-Cover...
...supposed to answer question No. 71 Do we have to read the ads, too, to qualify as a cover-to-cover reader ? I read those that look interesting to me, but I recognize some of them right away as not meant particularly for a housewife. Can I still be called a cover-to-cover reader...
Their California office assembled 600 workmen, steam shovels, concrete mixers, derricks, lumber, steel, wires and glass. They had a 70-acre field to cover with buildings. Austin's planning department functioned smoothly. Supply dealers (mostly in Los Angeles) moved their materials on schedule. Men labored from dawn to dusk. In just 70% working days from the moment ground was broken this new cinema "city" was ready for First National Pictures to begin production...
...with any sense at all ever fails to look first at the pictures in any book whose cover says that it was "illustrated by Arthur Rackham." In fact, that one phrase makes a great many people want certain books which they might otherwise never think to buy. This applies particularly to grown people, who have read Peter Pan and The Water Babies and Aesop's Fables and Hansel and Gretel years ago. A great many parents now buy Rackhamized editions of these books and pretend that they are doing it to please their children. It comes to that...
Alumni laden with thermos bottles and steamer rugs, return to Cambridge each year to find that dynamite and the steam-shovel have obliterated more and more memories, and that steel and stone have combined to cover them as completely as if they had never been. With the present ambitious and comprehensive building program of the University, surprises are plentiful for the graduates...