Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senior collectors expressed their fear that the money collected would scarcely be enough to cover the damage done to their garments and to the appearance of the Library...
TIME'S reviewer vows that he read It's Not Done from cover to cover at one uninterrupted sitting. Subscriber Painter's contention that "Chesterbridge" means Philadelphia is sound. Who can the hoary poet "Walt" be, across the river from Chesterbridge, but Walt Whitman, who lived in Camden, across the Delaware from Philadelphia, during his last years...
...With interest calculated at 4.25%, the proposed payments of Italy are worth this amount. It is by reducing interest to 1.1% that the Italian payments are made to cover the entire debt...
...very slow. In many places the roads were mere gullies worn 20 to 30 feet below the surface of the surrounding country by the countless years of travel over them. In the rains these roads became mud sloughs. The expedition actually considered itself fortunate if it was able to cover 20 miles a day in the carts in which it went as far as Suchow in Kansu. Here it changed the carts for camels and turned northward...
...wind that blew dismayed this crew or troubled their artist minds; they fired salutes beneath Capital's boots, with every expectation of booming gales of applause from "workers." The cover design was a brawny miner with an idea bursting from his skull. Scott Nearing, famed sociologist, just back from a trip to Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov, Tiflis and other centres of culture, limned a deplorable contrast between the mammon-ridden U.S. and progressive Soviet Russia. Robert W. Dunn, young Yale Communist, described with devastating irony the activities of a Massachusetts labor-spy. "Bad Bishop" William Montgomery Brown contributed his revolutionary...