Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show a profit, with receipts of $260,003, compared with an income of $291,000 last year. However football expenses were cut $7,000. Track and hockey both reported a rise in their expenses, and while the income for those two sports rose, it is still not enough to cover the deficits...
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...Miller says he was a timid, colorless bumpkin when he showed up in Chicago for his first newspaper job. Sent to cover police courts, murder trials and hangings, Cub Webster Miller soon learned to talk tough, shortened his first name to Webb "because it made a better by-line." A War correspondent after graduating from the Mexican border troubles, Webb Miller lived through London air raids, saw men die on the Western Front. After the Armistice, as chief of U. P.'s Paris Bureau, Webb Miller watched Poincaré, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson knock together the doomed...
...clamp his neck under the knife anyway. The heavy blade fell and Mr. Miller observed that "a hideous spurt of blood gushed out." Time elapsed: 26 sec. Three years later, star Reporter Miller turned war-weary eyes on other Frenchmen potting Riffs. In 1930 he hurried from London to cover Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in India. While Mr. Miller looked on at Dharasana, native police under the direction of British officials methodically clubbed and booted rank after rank of the Mahatma's supine, unresisting followers. Says Reporter Miller: "I felt an indefinable sense of helpless rage...
...copy of Walden wherever he goes, Webb Miller rounds off his memoirs by sombrely remarking that "the philosophy of Thoreau ... is impractical as a rule of life. . . . Often I wish I could find the peace which Walden represents to me . . . but now I am starting back to Europe to cover the next...