Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individuals are unfortunate enough to have lost all their hair . . . they obtain free toupees." The Republicans' ponderous Gene Millikin, whose bald dome glistens like a submerged boulder in a Colorado stream, rose in mock dismay: "What would make a man so depraved that he would want to cover an honest bald head...
...night that if Adam and Eve started this game about 4000 B.C. and had been reasonably fertile, if we had had a 10% increase per generation, we would now have-unless my slide rule slipped-a population as densely packed as this auditorium, leaving out the aisles. It would cover the entire earth, deserts and oceans 15 layers deep. Those who would be allocated the desert would be very much distressed, those allocated to the oceans would...
When TIME'S editors decided to do a cover story on Mexico's Diego Rivera, they asked the artist if he would like to do his own cover portrait. As a result, a new self-portrait of Rivera, drawn to TIME'S specifications, appears on this week's cover-the first time that a cover subject has done his own portrait for TIME...
...magazine's cover was a color photograph of a Williamsburg garden, bright with massed red tulips, yellow pansies and pink apple blossoms. Better Homes and Gardens did more than picture the garden on its April issue. Inside, the editors told readers how to grow such a garden in their backyards. Such practical "how-to-do-it" stories have made Better Homes and Gardens (circ. 3,250,000) the bestselling homemaking magazine in the U.S.* and the current issue the plumpest (322 pp.) and most profitable ($2,000,000 worth of ads) in its 27-year history...
...Cover) In the center of Mexico City squats a vast, magnificently ugly edifice of white marble, imported block by block from Italy. Officially it is the Palace of Fine Arts, but mexicanos call it the elefante blanco and point out, with mingled pride and disdain, that the ponderous thing is slowly sinking, of its own weight, into the city's soft subsoil...