Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 130,000 more employes of the Government eligible for the Civil Service and permanent tenure of their jobs, if they have held them six months and can pass examinations (non-competitive). The orders also set up a personnel council, to watch over the merit system which will now blanket 660,000 of the Government's 826,319 civil employes...
...inches per minute within a cat's windpipe. When administered in oil or other fluids, the particles quickly reached the alveoli, were not completely excreted except over a period of weeks. The researchers found that the cilia, to remove dust effectively, must be covered with a "blanket" of mucus. The cilia kept this mucus moving up & out of the lungs all the time...
...shivered, for the chimney cast a long shadow over him and an evening breeze was already ruffling the Charles. Slipping on some trousers and bundling his blanket, he crawled along the sharp ridge over to a gable window. He felt indescribably exuberant, for in three weeks he would be on his way to the mountains...
...first start was called off when Bob Coquillette, rowing at seven in the Leverett shell, broke his car within the 30 second time limit. Leverett, Kirkland and Lowell crossed the line in a blanket finish...
WASHINGTON--Top-ranking Administration officials tonight jubilantly proclaimed that the Renomination of Sen. Claude Popper, D., Fla., ardent New Dealer, in yesterday's primaries, constituted a blanket endorsement of President Roosevelt's liberal policies and a sign that the Chief Executive's personal popularity is not waning...