Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South, the Dixiecrats were scrambling for cover. Over the flat cotton lands rose the wail of countless Dixiecrats protesting that they had considered themselves Democrats all along. Candidate J. Strom Thurmond wired Truman: "You are entitled to the united support of a united people," then quickly explained to newsmen that "the fight was within our own family...
Ryder taught Oppenheimer to read the Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit, his eighth language. Oppie still reads them, for his "private delight" and sometimes for the public edification of friends (the Bhagavad-Gita, its worn pink cover patched with Scotch tape, occupies a place of honor in his Princeton study). He is particularly fond of one Sanskrit couplet: "Scholarship is less than sense, therefore seek intelligence...
...broad-brimmed Stetson was too much hat; every spy within a mile of Union Station could spot his comings & goings. Oppie compromised on a brown porkpie (size 6 7/8|), and has worn it ever since. Physicists were not mystified when the hat appeared, uncaptioned and unexplained, on the cover of the magazine Physics Today...
...million. U.S. Steel, which made news chiefly by not declaring an extra dividend (which Wall Street had hoped for), trailed with a rise of 20% to $34.5 million. But Big Steel's net did not tell the whole story. Because its depreciation reserves "were not sufficient to cover the cost" of replacing property at current high prices, the company had put aside an extra $13.5 million. Without this set aside, the profit increase over 1947's third quarter would have been closer to 70%. Similarly, high costs were forcing many another big or growing company to apply more...
...pamphlet, paid for by undergraduate organizations and interested alumni, has for its keynote a large-lettered "Does Harvard Want a War Memorial?" on the cover and continues inside to question "Or Only Part of a Memorial...