Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order to give all former service men whose insurance has lapsed or been canceled, a fair chance to reinstate their insurance, including men who have been out of the service eighteen months or more, and who are therefore barred from reinstatement under the former ruling, a special blanket ruling is made which allows all ex-service men to reinstate their insurance before December 31, 1919, provided that each applicant is in as good health as at date of discharge or at expiration of the grace period, which ever is the later date, and so states in his application. Of course...
WAKEFIELD, MASS., June 4, 1917.--After a rather hot march the first battalion arrived on its camping ground at the Wakefield range at one o'clock today. This afternoon was spent by the men in getting settled in their new quarters, distributing their blanket rolls and making other preparations for their week of occupancy. Slings for the rifles were issued, as well as a limited number of army blankets to those men who were unable to secure their own. The tents which the four companies will occupy were ready when the battalion arrived, having been set up by the militia...
...members of the association also intend buying their supplies from a common stock which will then be distributed to the various papers. Furthermore offices are to be opened in New York and agents will be employed to obtain blanket advertising for all the papers from concerns which advertise nationally. Branch offices are later to be established in San Francisco and Chicago, and other points in the West which will act as distributing centres...
...used in office walls and movable partitions. He has established the fact that a square yard of felt of a given thickness will absorb a certain amount of noise, and that if there is an overplus of noise, one must simply put up a corresponding area of sound-proof blanket. He has produced a long-fibre product of felt, designed to secure strength without losing absorbing power. The general result over the country has been the elimination in many cases of private offices, and the creation of large, single, office rooms, the ceilings and walls of which are treated with...
...discuss in open debate with the other the merits of its particular candidate; much less to meet the members of the Democratic Clubs or the Socialist Club. In the light of such conditions it seems superfluous, to say the least, that the Corporation should recently have established its blanket-rule prohibiting the use of Harvard halls for "persistent propaganda on contentious subjects of contemporaneous political, social, or religious interests": indeed it would seem wise for the authorities to encourage, even to the point of artificially stimulating, every effort to create a lively interest in anything deeper than class elections...