Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stars are actually counted from plates taken by small three-inch telescopes, which cover 16 square degrees of the heavens on each plate. The plates are then divided into quarter-inch squares, and the observer looks through a pair of binoculars to count the images within each square, finding as, many as three or four hundred in each. In this work, the large telescopes are useless since the greatest area it is possible to photograph with a 100-inch instrument is about one-tenth of a square degree...
These small, dark brown crickets have, however, a special sort of wing covers or tegmina, useless for flight, but used for producing its song. The under surface of the wing is covered with minute, (148 per millimeter) file-like projections which are scraped by a hardened, raised portion on the inner edge of the tegmina. The cricket draws this scraper edge across the rough under-part of the wing cover at a rate of 16 1-3 times per second, if the complete back and forth wing movement is counted as one, rather than as two, motions...
...Whipple, Minot & Murphy (TIME, Nov. 5) you referred to the efficacy of apricots, peaches, and prunes in red cell restoration without indicating that it was with dried fruits that Dr. Whipple worked. I call this to your attention, knowing the widespread circulation of TIME and the multitude of cover-to-cover readers who might get the idea that fresh or canned apricots, peaches, and prunes might be just as effective as the dried fruits...
Thus pressure on the franc last week was "psychological, not actual," in the opinion of foreign exchange experts. They pointed to the success of new Premier Flandin in winning huge votes of confidence from Chamber and Senate on a program of rock-ribbed gold standardism (seep. 21). The gold cover behind French currency stood at over 80%. Even so, psychological pressure was great. After-effects of the French crisis fortnight ago kept the currencies of four gold bloc countries (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland) fractionally below the gold export point all week. President Roosevelt, by relaxing completely the lax treasury restrictions...
...quick credit to resist pressure against the belga. From Washington the Treasury would neither affirm nor deny that a "foreign loan" had been made to Belgium, indicated that if it were so the Bank of Belgium would eventually have to ship gold to cover as much of the quick credit as was used...