Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advisable to substitute a blanket compulsory charge for the use of athletic facilities in place of the present fees-for-use system...
...issue nearly 2,000,000 new shares of stock. Chief among North American's assets is a transport system covering the Atlantic seaboard below New York, joining Avco's transcontinental line at Atlanta and meeting its Boston-Montreal sector at Newark. Integrated, the network would blanket the East and South. But whatever the merits of the deal, its effect would be the reduction of the Cord share in total Avco stock from...
...Petrolle weakened with fatigue, Canzoneri exhibited bravado. He dropped his hands and stuck out his jaw, moving it just in time to make his opponent miss. Petrolle won the seventh round and shook Canzoneri with a desperate right in the 15th. Then he wrapped himself in his Indian blanket while waiting for three judges to vote the decision, naturally and unanimously, to Canzoneri...
...blanket of soupy fog swept suddenly in over San Diego one evening last week, swallowed a group of 14 Navy planes soaring over the city. Twelve of the planes, Boeing fighters, were up from North Island Naval Air Station. Two, Vought Corsairs, were from U. S. S. Detroit. None was radio-equipped. Few of the pilots were specially trained for enforced blind flight...
Like so many comedies of recent vintage, the offering this week at the Wilbur is concerned with marriage and executed in the breezy fashion popularized by Noel Coward. Henry Hull parades around in a water-soaked derby, a full dress suit, and a baby-pink blanket in a manner that would make Alfred Lunt gasp in admiration...