Word: overspreading
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...British Empire in India was like a little patchwork of crimson spots on the map of the Indian continent," then Viceroy Lord Curzon wrote of the significance of his former abode. "When it was abandoned [in 1911, when the capital was moved to New Delhi], that color had overspread and suffused the whole...
Control center of the computator is a 60-foot plastic wall, overspread with instruments, dials, and bulbs. Behind the panel lies 3000 square feet of steel framework, housing the multi-colored units which store and operate on the numbers...
...weeks, over many miles of the U.S., there had been almost ceaseless rain. (In Chicago, 16 days out of May's first 19 dripped.) The monstrously gorged rivers-the Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Wabash, Osage, White, many others-roared like millraces, rose until they overspread their banks and engulfed the land. From Illinois and Indiana south to Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, hundreds of thousands of acres seeded with the food the world is waiting for lay under water. Swirling chaos enveloped many a valley town and city. In Oklahoma, Iowa and Kansas, tornadoes added to the havoc...
...theorists had become pragmatic, the practical were now willing to take a few theories. The scent of battle, and not a hopeless battle, brought Republicans together in Washington last week. To them the New Deal Administration was like an overfat, overspread empire, whose sentinels are asleep, whose palaces are termite-rotten under the gilt. The hungry guerrillas peered at Glenn Frank's battle-chart and sniffed...
...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...