Word: coverable
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...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...
...athletic carnival to be held in Madison Square Garden on December 17 will be the largest ever held under cover in this country...
Harper's appears with a very attractive cover design in blue and gold, being a variation of the accustomed design especially appropriate to the Christmas season. After one has waded through some seventy-five pages of advertisements, the title-page is at last reached...
...compose the conferences the conservative method of examinations seems the best and most uniform. Generally speaking the minds of pupils are so constituted that some car successfully show their proficiency by one method when others cannot. In a written examination, for example, the man with a certain ground to cover in a certain time may know instinctive y what to write and what not to write, where another, no less proficient, cannot do himself justice. Written examinations have their disadvantages and it is not necessary to discuss them further; but it will be difficult to decide upon a method...
...kind of pictures were those representing battles, but these are, however few and are mostly semi-religious. The figure of a person floating in the air was still another kind of picture which was very popular, while the fondness of the Romans for outdoor scenes led them frequently to cover their walls with representations of every day life...