Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sirs: On my regular cover to cover trip through TIME, I find the article (Dec. 28, p. 9) concerning the demotion of a War Department employe because of the misspelling of my name...
Last week he got another. He did not get it by book learning, for he confesses that in all his life he has never read twelve books from cover to cover. Although he likes baseball, sits at the ringside at nearly all good prize fights, and is a confirmed first-nighter at the theatre, it is hardly likely that any of these specialties got him a job. Perhaps his neat way of dressing contributed. He is a natty dresser, likes rather a tight fit in his clothes, favors a green fabric with a white stripe, is given to wearing patent...
...Protocols. 1) Both countries shall have entire mutual freedom of action, outside of the obligations just entered into. 2) The words "economic" and "political" in Article 3 (above) shall be interpreted in the widest sense, to cover all hostile agreements against either country under these heads. 3) The contracting parties mutually agree to determine upon a method of peaceably regulating differences arising between them which are not susceptible of adjustment through the normal diplomatic channels...
...Significance. Observers were inclined to smile at the bow to old school "secret diplomacy" which was made by the signatories in keeping their negotiations under cover until last week, although the signatures were affixed on Dec. 17. Diplomats widely averred that the treaty constitutes a standing bluff on the part of Soviet Russia and Turkey to the effect that neither will join that "union of an economic and political nature," the League of Nations. Diplomats opined that a further tang of bluff is given to the agreement by the fact that mutual neutrality instead of mutual aid is promised between...
...raises said parent's ire like having his child called an "it." If you do not know the sex of a child when relating an incident, it would be perfectly permissible to repeat the words "the child" or else say "he," for that pronoun is often used to cover both sexes. I am a constant reader of TIME and like it very much. However, I must agree with one of your correspondents that there is nothing very restful about the curt, jerky way you have of telling things. But you do tell the latest news, and one simply must...