Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When I first saw the cover of the Lampoon's Wonder-Book, I felt sure I should enjoy the number. One could hardly imagine a more charming prelude--a boy and girl wandering across a fairy heath where on near the witch tree and far from the enchanted castle they meet a glant and discover elves; all this in exquisite tinis and April airlness. What a clever hand Philip Boone must have, I said; and I turned to the pictures within to see how the other articles had expressed the spirit of whimsey which must twinkle in story books...
Just to tell you that the portrait of Sinclair Lewis on the cover of TIME, March 14 gives one the best possible insight into Elmer Gantry and the rest of Lewis' yammerings...
Nicaraguans know better than to fire at 6,000 U. S. marines who patrol, police and "neutralize" their country; but last week some of the marines began to fly about Nicaragua in airplanes, and Nicaraguans embraced enthusiastically the opportunity to snipe undetected at these planes from cover...
...general examinations, in contrast to the ordinary final examinations, will be oral and will cover a wider field in a more general way than is the case in the final examinations...
...former plan of broad fields, encouraged men to choose those in which they could take the most courses, and thus cover the specific subject with the least individual research. A premium was thus placed upon those fields in which much instruction could be obtained, and which formed a large block of in general History examination...