Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of churches throughout the land this Sunday, devout Catholics will drop 1? in a plate in the vestibule, help themselves to copies of a magazine named Catholic Missions. On its rotogravure cover they behold a sea-&-sunset scene captioned: "Enchanted Isles. In the islands of the South Seas 1,566 missioner priests, brothers and nuns are laboring efficiently among 1,835,030 natives." Thumbing through its 24 smooth, substantial pages, readers see rotogravures of the Pope in a procession, a Chinese moppet learning the rosary, a Japanese babe on an old man's back, Indian nuns and Chinese...
...gazed bewildered upon the scene that lay unfolded... There before him stood a stocky and amazed youth interrupted in the midst of rehearsing his part for a female role in the Kirkland House play. Chagrined and defeated the guardian of the fair name of Harvard sought the protective cover of the night...
...maximum amount a student may receive from Uncle Sam during the college year is $120. this is sizable money in the West and South where at state universities, a few hundred dollars pays for tuition, room and board. At most New England colleges it would not cover the tuition fee for the first semester, let alone other expenses! Although twenty-three Massachusetts institutions are co-operating in the plan, it is hard to see how their students will profit much by it. the varying effects of the venture, excellent as its purpose unquestionably is, provide additional evidence of the tremendous...
...laundry agency should not be tried here in Cambridge. At least it would present a more sensible appearance than the present, wherein each of some five or six groups claims to offer "the lowest prices on the Square". In the single, authorized Agency a stated number of solicitors would cover at restricted times a prescribed territory, bearing with them a properly-signed pass. Strictly speaking, such an Agency would not enjoy a monopoly, but would be allowed solely the privilege of canvassing University property, thus permitting other concerns to collect and deliver at student request. At the same time, undesirable...
...Holcombe went on to say that the present form of county administration actually is a remnant of the "horseback age," since the old English county was the territory which a rider could cover in a single...