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Never before had any foreign dignitary addressed Congress in such a crucial time. Congressmen who had gone home for the Christmas holiday scurried back to Washington. A thousand men & women, after a day-long struggle for tickets, crowded into the small galleries; another 5,000 stood in the damp weather outside the Capitol, just to be near...
...During bombardment of Coventry, many factories had to move to cold, damp, uncomfortable garages. Yet fewer employes stayed away from work than usual. In London department stores, during heavy bombardment, the absence rate was lower than before...
...speaker was finished, and the last wreath had been placed on the tomb of the newer Unknown Soldier. The bugler was sounding taps as Vag, shivering a bit from the damp which had penetrated his light reversible, left the enlarged Arlington National Cemetery. Outside it all seemed so unreal--Vag wondered if he had had a vision of the future or a nightmare of the past...
Down dark, damp and draughty tunnels like a bunny-now I know...
Several of the Houses, including Leverett, Lowell, Dunster, and Adams have their tennis and golf tournaments well underway. Although the dead-line for the first play-offs had to be postponed several days on account of the persistent rain and generally damp weather Cambridge has been having, most of the first matches have now been played...