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...third of Lake Michigan and the northern portion of Southern Michigan, glide over the lower half of Lake Huron, sweep across Ontario, picking up Toronto at its northern edge, span the approaching tips of Lakes Erie and Ontario, cross straight over Buffalo, darken northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New York, blanket nearly all of Connecticut and much of Rhode Island and go out to sea about 9:15 with Manhattan at its southern border. New Haven at its centre and New Bedford at its north flank; then out far across the Atlantic before taking a sweep north...
Over London dropped with the suddenness of a theatre curtain a dense, dirty, yellow, cold, clammy, blanket of fog. For 24 hours the street lamps shed their ineffectual light, people walked cautiously, busses crashed into one another, policemen controlled traffic with rockets...
Undoubtedly the "Goose-Step" author exaggerates and asserts a mistaken opinion when he makes the blanket charge that the control exercised on our educational institutions by "big business" is always pernicious. But he proclaims a truth when he contends that such control leaves a Damoclean sword forever over the head of liberalism in our colleges. The financier-educators may cut the thread at any moment...
...Guadalupe, the Blessed Virgin appeared to a newly converted Mexican Indian. The local bishop could not believe that the vision was authentic. Some days later, she appeared again to the Indian, and this.time her image became painted on the fibre of his blanket. The Bishop saw and believed...
...great deal may happen in 129 years. Did, in fact. The Pudding was founded 129 years before Massachusetis Hall caught fire and an officer of the College, seeking refuge from the smoke in the upper halls, and appearing at a window, was urged to jump into a blanket. The blanket was there...