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With them he got a pair of magic spectacles to decipher the symbols. One look by anyone else, Joseph said, would mean instant death. After months of speaking from behind a blanket while awe-stricken neighbors took down his words, Joseph Smith produced a 275,000-word document which he called The Book of Mormon. Mark Twain, the great debunker of his day, later described it as "chloroform in print...
...earthworm life was snuffed out in a single freezing spell. But in a burlap-covered acre, 995,000 worms survived; 1,610,000 slithered to safety beneath a protective acre of hay. The conservationists recommend a covering of chopped cornstalks or manure, or a quick-growing catch crop, to blanket the worms and tide them through the winter...
Despite last winter's slump, a prime lower Yukon mink still brought $35, a prime beaver blanket...
...chapter of the American Veterans Committee took steps to offer relief to the 9,000 veterans at Harvard whose budgets would be hard hit by the V. A. failure. AVC spokesmen declared, however, that first consideration would be given where the need was greatest, and no policy of blanket loans was anticipated...
...blanket policy laid down will not bar extracurricular "peddlers" from setting up tables in vestibules outside the dining halls proper, or in common rooms. Not all Houses, however, have adequate or convenient space of this kind...