Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home stretch a jockey has nothing to lose by whipping a tired horse. But the horse in this case was rather flabbergasted at how much ground its jockey expected it to cover in how little time. As the House delegation emerged with their instructions, newshawks crowded around to ask what was now on the President's "must" list. Said a member of the delegation: "You sit down and write out a list and I'll tell you if there's anything you have left...
...separated the mother guppy from the rest of the fish by placing her in an uncovered bowl. After an absence of several hours I found the mother guppy lying dead and absolutely stiff on the floor, having jumped out of the bowl which 1 had neglected to cover. Being interested in anatomy I decided to see just how the young were arranged in the mother. Imagine my surprise when the first baby I removed straightened out and began to squirm. I got a glass and salvaged seven living guppies out of the eleven present in the mother...
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...Chicago's City Press Association, Howey was walking to City Hall to cover a routine meeting one winter day in 1903, when he saw smoke seeping from the Iroquois Theatre. Up through a sidewalk grating crawled a blackened figure in stage costume, then another & another. They gasped a few words about the carnage inside. Cub Howey dashed into a saloon next door, telephoned his editor (who was certain Howey was drunk), paid the bartender $5 to tie up the telephone, one of the few in the neighborhood. When the day was over, boxcar headlines were screaming "736 DEAD...
...long time, however, a few big companies have bulldozed the carriers into paying them for operating their own equipment, arguing that freight rates were supposed to cover such switching and "spotting" service. And from 1927 to 1931 these few companies extracted from the railroads $9,000,000 in rebates for performing for themselves a job which they would not permit the railroads to do. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission, ruling such payment illegal, ordered the carriers to cease & desist. Wall Street chuckled at the list of manufacturers immediately affected by the I. C. C. order: almost all were plants...