Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the period of four months is as much to be lamented as a similar method of estimating the worth of that interpretation. Although it is quite easy to ask and correct questions in mathematics and the sciences, it is difficult in the arts to originate questions that will cover a subject thoroughly and intelligent, and to mark these by a definite set of standards that will give each student full justice...
...armed only with swords, go down like tenpins. The women kill their children, then themselves. This invincible heroism, says Author Baum, taught the Dutch to rule the conquered Balinese with a loose rein. One thing the prudish Dutchmen did insist on: that the satiny brown-skinned Balinese women cover their beautiful breasts...
...might. Coverage of this war has other quixotic aspects. Reporters who are in a Chinese city one day may find it belongs to Japan the next. In Shanghai correspondents and cameramen could sleep comfortably in clean hotel beds, decide each morning which army they wanted to cover that day. But such convenience bred its carelessness and, for example, all United Press men had to be warned against foolishly exposing themselves after a machine-gun bullet bounced off H. R. ("Bud") Ekins' tin hat. While Shanghai was a battlefield, New York Herald Tribune's Victor Keen took...
...magazine cover showing the bare, potted back of a man undergoing "suction cup" treatment will fascinate, arrest, sell itself to at least 800,000 people who see it on the newsstands this week. At any rate, that is the hope of Adman John Stirling Getchell, mainspring of the new picture magazine Picture...
Widely reputed a pioneer user of news-style pictures in advertisements (Fleischmann, Goodrich), Mr. Getchell aims at a clientele supposedly unsatisfied by either Look or LIFE. Picture makes no attempt to create sensations or cover the news, goes in for illustrated expositions of topics like the life of a chorus girl, the dangers of lightning, "Strange Animal Diets." what happens to you in a Turkish bath, how Connecticut operates its premarital, Wassermann testing, the way to give a bum a new lease on life, how San Francisco cultivates potential artists, aged...