Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armonk, N. Y.. William Briggs, farmer, refused to get out of bed for police officers who had come to arrest him, was wrapped in a blanket, dumped in front of a Justice of the Peace, sentenced to four months, 25 days, for beating his wife over the head with a live chicken...
...Gothic Vaulting of the Vagabond's narrow cell grew dim in the dusk of the late afternoon. Outside the rain drizzled down, blanket upon blanket, showing the streets below a black ribbon in which closely wrapped figures hastened under the shuddering arcs to the bright shelter of heated chambers. Through the racing, crowding thunderheads above, there still broke a few dull rays of yellow light, which reflected eyrily from Memorial's gray and blood slates into the oaken garret. The Vagabond turned from the casement to the dark and empty chimney corner and lighted the lamp by his deep leathern...
...explain radio, among other natural phenomena, physicists have imagined a stretchy blanket of ions encasing the Earth. This is the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer, named after Harvard's Bombay-born Professor Arthur Edwin Kennelly and England's late (1850-1925) Oliver Heaviside, bookstore keeper who for amusement invented mathematical forms to describe the behavior of alternating currents. Radio waves are presumed to reflect from the Layer much as light beams reflect from a mirror. Estimates place the Layer at 50 to 250 mi. from Earth's surface and picture it as roughly spherical.* At night the Layer shrinks...
...Making a blanket arrest on the charge of trafficking in women and children, the Chilean police helped to dig the motorcade out, hurried it to the frontier town of Los Andes. There the brides & seamstresses confessed that they had been recruited in Santiago and Valparaiso to work in the casitas of Buenos Aires. They gave their ages as between 14 and 25. A few said they had been "lured" from home by promises of a motor ride to see the sights of Buenos Aires...
...Toronto last week one Fred Shipley did a jigsaw puzzle while his apartment burned. Forcibly ejected by firemen. Puzzler Shipley finished his puzzle under a blanket on the sidewalk...