Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magazine such as TIME have the poor taste to publish on its front cover the photograph of a professional baseball player, and more, with his mouth open, and a rookie at that [TIME, July 13]. Do you not realize that TIME is on the table about the home for anyone, no matter how young, to read, if he can! That baseball is played on Sundays, and that the front cover would be better given to the Royal Family (not economic Royalists) or something similar. After the lovely photo of Jean Harlow some months ago and the nude...
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...First 24 hours the bridge was opened last week 50,000 automobiles crossed over. In the next twelve hours 50.000 more crossed. Motorists paid 25? toll per car, trucks up to 75?. Passenger cars were compelled to travel 40 m.p.h. across the bridge. Fifteen minutes sufficed to cover distances which heretofore required well over an hour through narrow streets and over older bridges. Immediate result of the Triborough's opening: a 30% drop in traffic across the older East River bridges between Manhattan and Long Island on which no toll is charged...
Sandemose used to write in Danish, his native language. Then he wrote a potboiler whose success disgusted him so that he left Denmark, settled in Norway, took to writing in Norwegian. Last week his second book in his foster-tongue was published in the U. S. Cover-to-cover readers of A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks did not have to be told that its author was pernickety. But when they heard that he was being likened to James Joyce, they wondered how much of his doubly-translated book had come through the wash. To old-fashioned readers who could remember...