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Word: covered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feature films made here have been remarkably successful abroad. The cost of the Covered Wagon-about $800,000- has just about been covered by foreign sales; altogether it has grossed $5,000,000. Similar success has attended the Sea Hawk, which cost $700,000, and will gross about $3,000,000, and the Lost World, which also cost about $700,000. The Ten Commandments cost $1,800,000 to make-more than double the cost of any previous film. Despite early predictions of a staggering loss on this picture, it is now believed that foreign sales alone will more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Film Exports | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...Vinci himself could not look down on him; Franklin's achievements cover a narrower range. There was nothing he could not do, nothing he did not do-in the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swedenborgians | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...leopard dropped, was up again, darting for cover, with White after it, followed by two natives with extra quivers of arrows. One carried also a small gun, by way of "mental comfort." The hidden leopard surprised one of White's companions, fell upon him and clawed him. The gun carrier came to the rescue and fired pointblank. More infuriated, the beast turned upon the firer, bit him furiously. White seized the fallen gun and fired the second shot, only to draw the leopard's attack on himself with such force that he was knocked down, leopard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hunting | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...table of contents as it is superfluous?every subscriber reading the magazine from cover to cover?and in this manner you would have that much additional space for news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Harding Scored | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...loves, deeds, progeny, businesses of all Biblical characters who amounted to anything-they have been properly set down at last by the Rev. E. Fletcher Allen, M. A., in a book with a cover as blue as the Sea of Galilee entitled Who's Who in the Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who's Who | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

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