Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rough red cover of the 115 page volume is made of a burlap material and bears the Kirkland Seal in gold...
...school's youngest pupil is three, its oldest 49. Fees for lessons range from 50? to $2. Children under ten pay $1 for a piano, violin or cello lesson, and a class in musical theory is thrown in for nothing. Adults pay $2. Actually these fees cover only one-third the cost of the lessons. Another third comes from the school's endowment fund; a final third is raised by public subscription. For specially talented pupils free scholarships are sometimes provided...
...Harvard's new offspring has chosen a plan of attack which seems on the whole to be highly practicable. Students will not specialize in technical training for the purpose of stepping into one particular government job fully prepared, but will cover the broader and more fundamental fields which will prepare them in somewhat the same fashion as the Studies for English Civil Service exams...
...front cover of Eugene Young's new book is outlined a pair of scissors. These scissors have a double significance; they describe what has happened to most of the foreign news before it reaches the hands of Mr. Young in his capacity of Cable Editor of the New York Times, and also represent how the author has cut apart the vast layer of propaganda to get at the truth of the foreign situation. "Looking Behind the Censorships" does much more than present the difficulties of the foreign news hawk, it attempts to get at the bottom of the maze...
...front cover...