Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depth from a yard or so to 16 ft., contain ashes, shells, sea urchin spines, rotted wood and sod, bones of fish, birds and mammals (including whales), blown dust or silt, organic refuse of all sorts. Naturally the scientist cannot see this stuff without digging, because it is covered with vegetation. It is the vegetation itself which gives the clue. Rooted in such beds of unintentional fertilizer, the growth is darker, richer and taller than the average, and may show a luxuriant cover of plants which are rare elsewhere. On Kodiak Island the sites were covered with stinging nettles...
...carry a payload of 25,000 Ib. in which is included full day and night accommodation for 100 passengers, crew of 16, mail, baggage and express. Six months from now if Colonel Lindbergh and P. A. A. are still interested, $35,000 will be allotted to cover the cost to the builders of further estimates. As nothing a third the size has ever been constructed in the U. S., airmen last week dazed themselves with such speculations of the completed ship as its wing spread, 200 ft.; fuselage, 200 ft. by 25 ft.; weight, 200,000 Ib. with six engines...
...something had gone wrong. The King amiably agreed to pose again provided there would not be another such explosion. He left the room and returned in ten minutes after adjustments had been made. Another three minutes posing, better behaved flash bulbs and the picture which TIME selected for its cover was taken...
...ever stop to consider what a subscriber means when he says he is a cover to cover reader? Which cover comes first? I have often discussed with my friends the actual mechanics of reading TIME. It amused me to find that nine out of ten women read TIME backwards. That is, they start with Books and read toward National Affairs...
...those who have subscribed but have not paid their bill will be required to make a down payment of two dollars before receiving their copy. The men who have settled their entire bill before the end of the term will have their names embossed in gold on the cover of the Red Book...