Word: coversations
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The course of censorship, as it followed the outbreak of hostilities, is traced through displays of entire envelopes or "covers" representing by their stamps, their censorship markings, their patriotic stickers, and their cancellations.
Children (like their elders) dislike brown book covers, unbroken pages of type, fine print. They often annoy their parents by ignoring old copies of The Jungle Book and Robinson Crusoe on the family bookshelves and bringing home from the library, as fresh discoveries, the same books-illustrated.
To the U.S. public Grant Wood was a homely, honest lowan whose art, unlike most of his contemporaries', spoke directly to the man in the street. His meticulous paintings of plain U.S. landscapes and plain U.S. people were hung in the smart art salons of 57th Street; they also...
With 1942 revenues up from higher rates on more traffic, the railroads can probably maintain their 1942 net profits at around $500,000,000, on a par with last year. In comparison with any year since 1930, this is profit indeed (see chart, which covers Class I roads). But for...
Trouble was that the mercury 1) dissolved a lot of rust from the steel tubes it moved through, 2) did not heat uniformly, so that it flowed poorly, overheating certain boiler pipes. A corps of chemists, metallurgists, engineers finally figured out the reason. Mercury-with its well-known tendency to...