Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That tolerant understanding smile (cover) makes one feel a bit less "scrambled...
...develop more exact methods of finding out the who, what, when, where and why of radio listening, particularly on behalf of radio education, The Rockefeller Foundation in September 1937 set up the Princeton Radio Research Project, gave it $67,000 to cover an anticipated two years' work. To its basic problem the project has not yet found all the answers. But it has turned up a mass of "byproduct" information about listener habits, types, preferences. So interesting were some of these by-product findings that The Journal of Applied Psychology delayed publication of its February issue until last month...
Star number one is Hildegarde, who has been on the cover of Life and in the columns of Time magazine of late, besides finding time to do a radio program known as "Ninety-Nine Men and a Girl." In addition to her singing, which Time aptly termed "singing like Garbo looks," she is an excellent pianist and plans to do some double piano work while up here...
...tutoring schools have so many clients lies in the fact that in a multitude of courses no time is allowed for reviewing before an examination. Even worse in some instances: for History I at mid-years, besides all the reviewing we were meant to do, we had to cover a staggering three week assignment within the last fortnight before the examination. In England, both in preparatory schools and varsities, we were always given a "revising-hours" and in consequence we registered less cases of failure than you do over here, and we did not have to resort to crammers. Take...
...receiving end, proceeded to tag individual columnists with some typical Ickes' characterizations. Walter Lippmann "would never even break his wooden sword unless he should trip over it in a minuet." Dorothy Thompson, "the Cassandra of the columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous comment that he will direct at a straw man." Boake Carter "could enter any intellectual goldfish swallowing contest...