Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appropriation of $26,500 has been made for the fellowships for the year 1937-38 to be allocated as follows: $13,000 for six post-doctorates fellowships at $2,000 each, with $1,000 to cover the cost of equipment needed in the work of this group, and $13,000 for eighteen post-graduate fellowships at $750 each...
Fight Against Fear (See front cover) Jack Dempsey had screwed up his courage for a fight last week. Bright & early one morning he turned up at the State Supreme Court building in downtown Manhattan, prepared to testify that once he had been afraid to fight, had paid to be let off. Old Champion Dempsey's reputation for ferocious pugnacity remained unblemished. But as proprietor of big, flashy Jack Dempsey's Restaurant, across the street from Madison Square Garden, he had, according to the courtroom story of a State prosecutor, encountered an enemy more formidable than any Firpo...
...words as satisfactory to the state concerned as were the words of Prince Edward in his abdication broadcast. Confessed Romm: "I had full knowledge of the terrorist plot against the Soviet Government. ... I carried five letters from Radek to Trotsky. ... I agreed to become Trotsky's under- cover correspondent...
...exhibit them but pigeon fanciers give him most of the credit for restoring the white Frill-back, until recently a decadent breed, to its old prestige. He now judges some 30 shows a season, handles 50,000 birds, travels 30,000 miles a year. His fees for judging roughly cover his traveling expenses and the L. & N. is generous about leaves of absence because pigeon fanciers on the way to a show make a point of riding on the same train as the judge, usually take their stock with them in the baggage car. Judge Keifer has no time...
...engineer. When he lost his job and his money in 1930, he got along by selling gadgets, doing odd jobs like mending furniture and building his friends' fishponds in the Philadelphia suburbs. The first Monopoly board was a bit of oilcloth left over from a roll used to cover a kitchen table. In 933> two years after he had designed the game, Inventor Darrow put it on the market privately. Since Parker Brothers took it over in the spring of 1935, Monopoly, first smash hit perfected by an amateur parlor-game inventor in 35 years, has been translated into...