Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other day I flew up from Oakland to Seattle and TIME was my "upstairs" companion, and, as usual, I enjoyed it from "cover to cover." Out of 25 magazines I get, TIME is my favorite...
...press" books, exact replicas of world-famous editions. Except in a few cases where the contemporary cloth bindings are of such interest as to be worth preserving, all volumes are bound in calf or morocco. The seal and bookplate of the Hopkins Fund have been stamped in the cover of each book...
...nostrils and eustachian tubes. From below enter (in front) the larynx (top part of the trachea, or breathing tube), and (in back) the esophagus or food tube. In eating or drinking the epiglottis, a saddle-shaped piece of cartilage at the root of the tongue, flaps down to cover the larynx and windpipe. The term "throat" includes fauces and pharynx; the term "gullet" includes pharynx and esophagus.† 5,685 U. S. cases reported last week...
...front cover} Should an ancient fire-worshipper, reincarnated, return to the contemporary U. S. scene, it is perhaps in a steel-mill that he would find his most congenial employment. For the heart of the steel-mill is the flame of its furnace, and the power of the steel-mill is the heat of that flame. Cold and solid is steel to the layman. Hot and liquid it is to the steelworker, who is essentially one of dozens of cooks attending a titan's kettle of boiling muck. To him, it seems, the fiery mess is continually boiling...
Because of the fact that Saturday's trial was rowed at a relatively low stroke. Coach Brown will hold over the selection of his first and second eights until tomorrow when he will send the two crews over the course with admonitions to cover the distance in the shortest possible time. The competition for berths is close and it is necessary to see the men row under pressure in order to judge them to advantage...