Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relay team will be made up of forerunners, each man to cover the 220 distance. The teams will run against time and the first three teams will receive 5, 4, 1-2, and 4 points respectively. In the other events the first four places will count 5, 3, 2, and 1 in points and gold, silver, and bronze medals will be awarded those who win places. The team which scores the greatest number of points will receive the Harvard Cup which goes into the permanent possession of the team which first Wins it five times...
...prize winning "price peace plan", according to the formal announcement of the competition, must cover a definite alley for the retailer, the jobber, the manufacturer, the chain store and the department store. It must include consideration of "free goods" and "hidden discount" problems. The workability and the legality of the plans, either under existing law or desirable modification, will be the chief criterions on which the judges will base their decision...
...deals at as low as 51. They wasted their petty time, for the Board of Governors does not countenance such illicit transactions. Finally the ticker by mistake recorded a 30,000 trade at 52 for the real trade of 3,000 at that figure. The bears then scurried to cover so hard that the stock mounted to $55.50, closed at $54.00. About 150,000 shares had been turned over...
Although the amount received from the advertising is not sufficient to cover the cost of publication, and the deficits incurred in one or two of the departments, enough subscriptions have already been secured to insure the book's being a financial success without counting on what copies may be sold later. Last year the rain at the Jubilee cut down the sale of copies so much that the book showed a deficit of several hundred dollars...
Every May it reappears on professors lips. But after stating in cold blood that they are required to cover the whole course with their final test, the instructors proceed to exhibit the ingenuity with which they are in the habit of rendering the requirement innocuous. Most often they leave the matter with the statement that students need only review the outline of the first semester's work; and on the examination day the students are delighted to find that even that was unnecessary. Many other professors, however, circumvent the rule by designating with exactness what section of the work before...