Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blanket Finish...
...Born: Blanket, Tex., April...
...Samoa, a hurricane sideswiped the Idle Hour, snapped her sticks, and for 25 days the boys, sailed the 1,200 miles to New Zealand under a jury mast, with a blanket for sail. After repairs, the Idle Hour touched at Sydney, New Guinea, Bali, Singapore, carrying an occasional venturesome paying passenger. At Colombo, Ceylon, Timi caught malaria, died in Long's arms. Long saw to Timi's burial, then sailed on to London, stayed a year, wrote his 120,000-word book. In June he left Falmouth with Wilbur Thomas, 25, an American acquaintance who had come from...
When in need of more child workers than they have whelped themselves, tough Rumanian gypsies and hard-fisted peasants sometimes buy a "child slave" from professional kidnappers. Such a snatcher was feeble, wheezing Katinka Barbalate, 35, who was finally caught at lessy last week. Police nabbed her on a blanket charge of "kidnapping hundreds of children and selling them to gypsies and peasants...
...pick, staked out their claims on the easy frequencies, the most readily exploitable wave lengths. Ultrashort waves (frequencies of 30,000 kilocycles and higher) were the wasteland. It was known that they were reliably effective only as far as the horizon, a paltry range for services which sought to blanket the whole earth...