Word: overspread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clouds of uncertainty which for several months past have overspread the financial horizons of the New Deal have caused Harvard's Administration to put off until later than usual the annual decision on the next year's level of room rents, food prices, and other student expenses. But the time is rapidly approaching when these decisions must be made, and, fortunately or unfortunately, the financial horizons are also at last beginning to clear. The dollar has been devalued; prices may be counted upon to rise, if not correspondingly, at least to some extent. At the same time, the outlook...
...appeared in Persia after the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1738. Designer is thought to have been Ustad Isa, reputed creator of the Taj Mahal. Before it was stripped of most of its appurtenances, silver steps led up to the throne proper, a peacock tail canopy overspread it, diamonds, rubies, precious gems, thick as stars on an autumn night, encrusted it. Eastern imagination placed its original value at ?12,000,000 sterling...