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Word: blanket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since that date, Radcliffe has been accorded blanket news, feature, and picture coverage in the CRIMSON's columns no different from the coverage given Harvard events. On Radcliffe's side of the Square, "Welcome" mats are no longer whisked from under the feet of a CRIMSON reporter or photographer...

Author: By Joan Mcpartiln, | Title: Crime Keeps Pace With Life Force, Ends Cross-Town Feud With 'Cliffe | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...Merritt Parkway and most highways leading out of Boston lay buried under a six-inch blanket pock-marked throughout with yawning potholes. Jackknifed trucks and ditched cars stretched along US route 9, with busses travelling only in conveys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Ice Blitz Daunts Southbound Traffic as Plows, Blowtorches Fail | 1/27/1948 | See Source »

...substantial blanket not only reflects the sun by day, but traps any heat extant in the earth and pavements, depriving the air of warmth. This imprisoned heat is constantly eating away at the bottom of the ice sheet, the Observatory notes, and streams, sewers, and gutters are swelling by the hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icy Torrents and Collapsible Roofs Give Examination Blues New Theme | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

Lashed to a creamy froth, the skies tumbled a blanket of white on the Eastern Seaboard the day after Christmas. At first it was mistaken for leftover egg-nog, but it was not long before the awful truth dawned upon the quaint villagers of New York and Boston. It was snow. The mold had finally been broken. The awful implications were soon abroad, and within a day the sign of the flying red horse had changed to an off-white. But the effects were even broader; James B. Conant switched to Calvert because he liked its flaky texture; there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S'No Fun | 1/6/1948 | See Source »

...rolling plain of western Kansas, near Goodland, looked like a tinseled Christmas card last week. Light snow covered the fields, and green shoots of winter wheat made sparkling polka dots in the white blanket. It was a picture to cheer not only farmers but the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Season's Greetings | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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