Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smart, business-getting TWA looks coldly on the suggestion that its excursions be extended to cover Friday, the airline's busiest...
Individuals have been placed in charge of each of the Houses while members of the Freshman Committee will cover the Yard. One person will be selected in each entry to visit the rooms in that entry. Clothes and text-books are especially desired...
Through to the outside world last week came a vivid delayed cable recently sent by United Pressman Jack Belden, whose tough job was to cover the headlong Chinese flight from Taiyuan in the North: ''Scenes of horror marked the retreat of the Chinese, including former Communist corps. Screaming and running like maniacs, [were] soldiers whose skin had been burned from their hands and face, splashed by sulphur bombs...
...even stride. Under the unruffled direction of Lieut. Commander Matthews (George Brent), everything goes like clockwork. In the equalizing chamber the crew stands chattering about horseraces and San Diego girls while water creeps up to their waists, submerges the lower end of the tubular escape hatch. Presently the hatch cover is raised, a line attached to a cork buoy shoots upward to the surface and the men don "escape lungs," resembling hot-water bags. Then with clips holding their noses and mouthpieces gripped between their teeth, the crew in alphabetical order follow the escape line by easy stages...
First duties of the new officers is the arrangement of the freshman Dance scheduled for Friday night. An intensive begun. Last week announcements setting a nominal fee of $1.50 "to cover printing and distribution" were distributed in the Yard dormitories...