Word: covering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...design of the cover of the program of the musical clubs for their western trip is a fantastically dressed figure with a guitar, against the seal of the college and the word "Harvard" in large letters. The program is printed entirely...
When Napoleon was retreating from Russia, some young men were put into service and ordered to cover up the retreat of the Prussian army. For awhile they held the crossing of a road but their position was exposed. It became impossible to hold it and they met death. Napolean afterwards said that the reason these men did not retreat was because they did not know their danger. These young men were determined. It was God for whom they fought, he gave the commands, for him they would...
...design for the cover of the Yale Glee Club program for the Christmas trip is a cut of the grand stand at the Field, the entrance to the new gymnasium, and the boat house...
...comparison to that which the infinitely greater work on city papers brings; but nevertheless the diligent and earnest work which a college journal calls for helps, even if it be a little, towards developing a good journalist. If this course at the University of Chicago does not try to cover too much ground, as it perhaps threatens, it may succeed, and it is to be hoped it will succeed, in its object. In that case it may be well for us, in view of the growing number of graduates taking up journalism and also in view of better journalism...
...quarter of four fourteen men lined up in front of the gymnasium and started out to cover the five and a quarter miles in the quickest possible time. The course was the same as last year and was marked by a trail of paper, laid previously during the afternoon. The men started at a very fast pace and soon were separated into two squads. The three leaders kept well together the entire distance and the slower men struggled along about a quarter of a mile behind. The trail lay across the common to Concord avenue, to Walden street; thence across...