Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jokes and times which feature the book and lyrics of the play "1776" cover a period of 150 years. Starting with representative pieces from early revolutionary days the show carries us through periods of changing and diverse nature down to the present...
...Cover Charge" has neither plot, nor beginning nor end. The aurnor purports to supply one in the career of Alan, the hero. What it comes down to is a series of sordid affairs strung together with a certain deftness which is hardly compelling. In flashers, Mr. Woolrich's characters stand out in three dimensions. For the most part, however, they remain the tinsel marionnettes which the author undoubtedly intended them to be in order to gain his distorted effects. He tries to be surprising and clever in his use of words and situations but he too often descends to sheer...
...student wants a course not listed in the curriculum he will be allowed to do individual work under one of the instructors in a manner corresponding to the tutorial system at Harvard. He will then be required to cover the work specified in that course in his own college. There will be no compulsory curses; the needs of the individual student will determine his program...
...jaws of modernity. It suggests quite the contrary. For some time the freshman halls have served as a method of establishing contacts between members of the same class. Yet even these have suffered during the middle age darkness of sophomore and junior years when the class has scattered to cover until the rendez-vous in the Yard. The plan for a division of upperclassmen into college groups would destroy to a great degree this unhappy circumstance. But even more important than this, it would establish contacts between men of different classes in the proposed colleges, contacts at present the good...
...here to see that such a machine with such unlimited powers shall be unable to continue under cover. Whether or not my trial tomorrow goes against me I intend that the whole organization and at its workings shall be aired...