Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Cobb, another 200-lb. Briton, who was on the sidelines last week-waiting for his inning. John Cobb's car has a detachable aluminum body that weighs only 500 lb., can be dented by a man's fist and is placed over the driver like the cover of a roasting pan. Cooped in his pan, Driver Cobb hopes to go 400 m.p.h...
...front cover) One night last week in Mexico City high Cabinet officials held clandestine conclave. Its object, according to the dispatches of correspondents, was to consider whether the Government's "Party of the Mexican Revolution"* should nominate General Lázaro Cárdenas y del Rio for a second term as President...
...movement gathered momentum until the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego three years ago, where 2,000,000 sightseers at 25? a head peeked over a fence into a nudist corral. Bona fide nudists denounced the show, and indignant opinion throughout the country drove nudism under cover. Last fortnight the American Sunbathing Association, largest official nudist organization, held its second annual Pacific Coast convention at Estacada, Ore. Accomplishments: election of officers (who modestly withheld their names), formation of the Western Sunbathing Conference, reaffirmation of nudists' high ideals...
...didn't want the customary wedding-night snoopers hanging around his door. One servant had a mania for jabbing people with forks. Household provisions disappeared as by magic. When a discharged servant was told he had been satisfactory only the first six months, he insisted on references to cover that period. When the servant problem got bad enough, Ruth and Helen really came to believe in evil jinn...
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