Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moist Pebble. Not all the society's concerns are mechanical. Lectures this winter will cover psychological and philosophical problems. B.I.S. members believe it is not too soon to think seriously about such matters - that the age of space flight is not far away. A speaker at one meeting asked a ringing question: "Looking out across immensity to the great suns and circling planets . . . can you believe that man is to spend all his days cooped and crawling on the surface of-this tiny -this moist pebble with its clinging film of air?" The members answered unanimously with resounding noes...
This week the 104-year-old Gazette, now a pale, thin shade of its once fat and enormously profitable self, got a new girl. Unlike the heroine of Irving Berlin's hit of the '30s, she was no brunette chorus cutie to adorn its cover, but a long-legged, thirtyish blonde newshen to be its boss...
...speed of light is science's most revered measuring stick. Among countless other uses, the figure-299,776 kilometers per second-has been built into radars, which measure distances by the time it takes radio waves (traveling at the same speed as light) to cover them...
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Ever since, there has been war between Petrillo and A.G.V.A.'s parent body, the A.F.L. Associated Actors & Artistes of America, whose affiliates cover every entertainment field from circuses to grand opera. Petrillo was accused of signing up any actor who played so much as a musical comb. But he called it raiding when the "Four A" tried to enroll musicians who,. according to Petrillo, only stepped into the spotlight or said two words like,"Hello, hello." Many entertainers solved matters by belonging to both unions...