Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vividly conscious that a channel was cut into His Majesty's chest to let the poison drain out. Fortnight ago six royal physicians descried and decided that the royal abscess was not draining properly. They announced that they would have to operate again. To calm a worried public, Court officials quickly declared that the operation would be comparatively minor...
...also far more serious than the public had been led to believe. Parts of two ribs were cut away, to make a hole an inch and one-half in diameter (nearly the size of a golf ball) directly into the abscess, leaving the abscess completely exposed...
...draughty Moscow public dining hall a group of 99 U. S. tourists licked up grey beluga caviar last week, wryly gulped throat-scorching vodka. A band struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner." The tourists, clearing their throats, joined in the chorus. "It was the first time," opined the Associated Press, "that 'The Star-Spangled Banner' had been played in Moscow since the War." The day was the eleventh anniversary of the assassination by Soviet executors of Tsar Nicholas...
...Denver Public Library boasted of a fine collection. The librarians worked in peaceful seclusion over its catalogs, browsed undisturbed among the locked shelves. Bolok-seekers seldom dared or had a chance to interrupt them in their solemn labors. But one day the quiet, musty atmosphere of the building was suddenly shattered. John Cotton Dana, a civil engineer, was made Librarian. Declaring the value of a library was not in its collection but circulation, he opened the shelves, removed red-tape, gave Denver citizens a chance to read. When this was accomplished the new Librarian promptly began working on another radical...
When Mr. Dana died last week librarians grieved, paid tribute. Since his Denver days he had gone to Springfield, Mass., for four years (1898-1902) and increased that library's circulation by 47%. Then he had entered the Newark Public Library of which he was still Librarian at the time of his death. The Newark shelves had 78,798 books when he arrived. Last year it had 391,843 volumes and a 5-to-1 turnover. During his 27 years, two outstanding Dana deeds were the installation of the first U. S. Business Man's Library...