Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amazing to find to what a degree you manage to cover so wide a field while being at once precise and percipient, concise and concinnous, racy and readable...
...told the story of her song. Then a last tender note half-unsung, she stopped, plucked a flower from her dress, swung across the footlights made as if to throw it to some paunchy fellow, and did not. So everybody laughed after their tears, and Raquel flitted backstage under cover of thunderous applause...
Last week Harper's celebrated its 76th Anniversary. It appeared in a new cover of orange and black -a cover as suavely lurid as a tiger rug. It abandoned s practice of reproducing, under its title-head, a portrait, by some substantial master-folowed instead the example of The Dial, The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review by printing there its table of contents. There was little to remind the twitching ear-tabbed centenarian of the cover familiar to his halcyon days - the two roco pedestals that framed a page made acceptable for mid-centry boudoirs with a trinity...
...situation contains any moral, it seems to be that using the popular slogan of "price-stabilization" to cover prices which from an economic standpoint are too high, is a poor policy to follow in the oil business. Once the United States oil industry was practically a monopoly and could do about as it pleased in the prices. That, however, was several years...
...high as $50,000,000 a year. Last year it got an appropriation of $30,000,000. This year it received $24,000,000. Admiral Palmer, President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (actual operator of the Government merchant marine) estimated he would need $18,000,000 to cover losses next year. The Shipping Board, with more grandiose ideas, raised this estimate to $22,000,000, and tacked on $540,000 for its own expenses. General Lord made answer in effect: "You can expect not more than $15,300,000 all told." Admiral Palmer took Director Lord's ultimatum philosophically...