Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never a line about it? . . . The Telegraph is of the opinion that the more quickly a bad matter is brought to the light . . . the sooner it will be dissipated. . . . If the kluxing effort had been shown up to start with, thousands of good Georgians would never put on a mask or a nightshirt at $10 for a 35? garment and the order would have died aborning...
...Rhineland, in the courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: haversack, blanket roll, gas mask, mess kit and an extra pair of steel-shod marching boots lashed high above all. The sword of General Adolphe Guillaumat flashed...
...broiling Barcelona day last week 30,000 children marshaled by hundreds of priests gathered for an open air prayer festival at which it is a local custom to pray masked. Many and many a child sneaked off the sweltering mask during the long prayer, but all remained devoutly motionless kneeling under a grilling sun. When the prayer ended 28,000 tots rose and prepared to march away but 2,000 continued to kneel as though stupefied or paralyzed in the attitude of adoration. Doctors pronounced them sunstruck. Several hundred had to be rushed to hospitals, all were expected to recover...
...Fort Bragg, N. C., Army horses paraded last week wearing monsterlike headgear. To protect animals that draw field artillery guns and caissons, the Chemical Warfare Service was trying out a new type of equine gas mask. Considering adoption of the masks as regular equipment, the War Department announced that the horses tested had been satisfactorily protected from gas. But with this equipment, there will be no more thunderous galloping into battle, for horses can breathe in the masks, only when moving at a walk...
Either Tobe or White is the likely pitcher today with Wylte a possibility Sheldon will in all probability be behind the bat, with Armstrong in reserve. White and Sheldon were the second string battery on the Freshman team last years Sheldon donning the mask when not playing first base...