Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under a shroud as concealing as the wraps around an Atlas missile last week was the U.S. budget for the fiscal year 1959 (beginning next July 1). But like a big missile's cover, the shroud could scarcely conceal the gigantic bulk record peacetime $73.5 billion to $74 billion. Even a few of the budget's major components were becoming noticeable. Items...
Brower also pointed out that there were many points which the poll did not cover. In particular, he cited the absence of a parent's consent clause in the questionnaire and suggested that there might be considerable discrepancy between a student's "whim" and the moderating influence which a parent might exert in the matter...
Meteorologists are quick to admit that they know next to nothing about the basic mechanics of the world's weather. They lack firm data on basic determinants-global air currents, worldwide cloud-cover, distribution of radiation from the sun, etc. Without such data, last week weathermen were puzzling over an announcement by Dr. Roger Revelle, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, that the Pacific Ocean along the West Coast grew warmer by two to five degrees centigrade this year, bringing tropical fish as far north as the state of Washington...
...reason for both these instruments, says Dr. Francis Reichelderfer, head of the U.S. Weather Bureau, is that science cannot now keep track of the earth's "heat balance." The incoming energy from the sun fluctuates in an unknown manner, and the amount of cloud-cover on the earth affects the percentage of solar energy that is bounced back into space. A satellite equipped with proper instruments could measure incoming and outgoing energy, thereby help weathermen to predict as much as a year ahead whether a season is apt to be warmer or colder than usual...
...Pusey will deny reports that he is organizing a gold-finding expedition to South America in an attempt to bolster the Program for Harvard College. Professor Arthur Schlesinger Jr. will deny reports that he is going to the North Pole on a gold-finding expedition in an attempt to cover certain legal expenses. Mr. Schlesinger will say to reporters, "Go away. Please go away. I'm hiding...