Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Particularly cattlemen, who have been almost ruined by recent conditions, want permits to graze in the public for perpetuity with fees only large enough to cover the Government's administration expenses. The Forestry Bureau is unwilling to surrender the nation's forest reserves to the tender mercies of the hard pressed cattlemen. The other chief point on which the contest will be waged is why the Government has delayed undertaking irrigation projects authorized by Congress (see CABINET...
...TIME has already attended to the matter of faulty cover paper, has sent Subscriber Morris a fresh copy...
...Rogers Peet Co., clothiers, have five stores in Manhattan. Although few of the many Manhattan gentlemen who cover the span between their swaddling and their graveclothes in the sailor-suitings, Norfolks, long pants and cutaways of this concern, have ever beheld, in the flesh, either Mr. Rogers or Mr. Peet, few are without their conception of the personal appearance of these able outfitters. They envision Rogers as a spindling little man, whose pathetic shanks, shrunken torso and desiccated arms, contrast oddly with the twinkling zest of his round impish face, the shrewd pucker of his mobile mouth; they picture Peet...
...trip: '. would not call it murder, but I cannot put it too strong that if it had not been for the foolishness in cutting down the number of safety valves the crash would not have occured .... Now there will be a whitewash board of inquiry and some camouflage to cover up the real story of the cause which was the foolish action of the crew at the station in changing the valves. Already they are trying to lay the blame on poor dead Landsrowne...
Thirty elevators will assist the goings in, the comings out, of the missionary guests; a swimming pool will assist them to approximate godliness; twelve roof gardens, laid out in perennial shrubs and beds of hardy flowers, will enchant their leisure; the maximum charge of $21 a week will cover board, two meals on week days, three on Sundays, radio service, hospital and gymnasium privileges. The building will cost...