Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interviewed, and for another five years the inter-collegiate races take place at New London. The thrifty dwellers in the "nutmeg" town know on which side their bread is buttered, for in truth it is buttered on both sides. Whichever crew wins, pocket-books are opened, money is scattered broadcast, and revelry rules the town, at laast, once in the year. Before the races there are to be found both Harvard and Yale peanuts and sandwiches but afterwards only one kind remains in stock, and that kind is sure to be well patronized by the supporters of the victorious crew...
...greatest possible amount of learning and intelligence among the many American citizens. "What we want," he says, "is not two or three centres of learning, like Oxford and Cambridge in England, where all young Americans can collect who want more than a common school education, but small colleges scattered broadcast over our three million square miles of territory where a good practical education may be obtained by students who desire to devote the four years to the mere purpose of cultivation, broadening and strengthening their minds and characters for whatever calling they may ultimately choose...
Nihilistic documents are being scattered broadcast in St. Petersburg...
That Harvard College is "looked upon with the deepest horror by all good protectionists," says the Crimson, is evident from the fact that the Society for the Protection of American Industries "has sown broadcast throughout the college copies of the constitution of the society and of the proceedings at the remarkable meeting where the present organization was founded." These pamphlets will, however, the Crimson thinks, do little harm to the students, as few will read them, but for the sake of the few who have the curiosity to read them, it is suggested that some of our instructors in political...