Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority leaders were sure that their lines would hold. They had ammunition from the Administration itself: last week the Government's surplus surged to $7,163,095,565, and all the 1947 income-tax returns were not yet totaled. When they were, the surplus might be enough to cover both the $4.8 billion tax reduction and the $3 billion budget boost which the armed forces were asking...
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Abstractions made of pinned scraps of colored paper (see cuts) cover the bedroom walls. To the hasty eye, they might seem as inconsequential as a game, but Matisse himself is deeply proud of them. "Only when one has reached complete maturity and mastery of color," he explains, "is it possible to do anything like these. They might be compared to direct carving in sculpture-the same thing accomplished in color that Michelangelo did in stone. They are the result of my long career...
...raid even if it means the death of Bullivant and the 23rd Corps-just so long as he gets his scoop. He bullies Bullivant into bullying the partisans. to agree to fight. His scoop is ruined when, in a farcical scene, 19 other newspapermen descend on the camp to cover the raid. Comic fiasco turns to tragedy: the partisans attack, only to suffer casualties from the Allies, who have in the meantime taken over the area. Men have died needlessly because of Slater's viciousness and Bullivant's weakness...
Surveyors originally planned to cover ten percent of University undergraduates, but final results encompass the opinions of only 197 students, 3.6 percent of the College Population. Nevertheless, directors Ray F. Gootenberg '50 and Stanley H. Lofchie '50 claim the poll significant, since it represents "an accurate sampling" of College...