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Word: covered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...level is the-summit). Fortunate ones spend time brushing away cinders, black flies, mosquitoes. The writer killed a very bloody mosquito 5,500 feet above sea level. Black flies penetrate far above timber line. Scientists may disagree, but I had "bites" to prove my case. Keep the red cover. It will aid newsstand sales. Red-white-blue cover would be unsatisfactory, I believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...Bulletin too has its red cover. Red is a masculine color and you are integrating the American mind out of its effeminate idolatry of words. Did you ever tell your 100% objectors to your red strip to begin with the flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Roman punishments: "The Romans have a unique way of punishing some of their criminals. They tie them down on their back in the sun and then cover the victim's face with a thick layer of molasses for the flies to feast upon. . . . They whip [matricides] in public, and then they sew them up in a bull's hide together with a dog, a cock and a monkey, and throw them into the Tiber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cleopatra | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Lindbergh for Cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...TIME would drop the use of such words, and would change its "screaming red cover" to one of quieter hue, it would please the more conservative taste of some of its readers. ALICE DRESSER BARTHOLOMEW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

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