Word: scattered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lumbering horse car."-Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly, Baltimore. It permits elegant excision of cancer ramifications and delicate areas of the brain. It may permit operations of the spinal cord. But President-elect Allen Buckner Kanavel, Chicago, pointed out that coagulation caused by the cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them...
...consequence of his relativity theory that light from large bodies would show a shift toward the long end of the spectrum, that this shift did not mean a real movement away from earth. Willem De Sitter, on the contrary, claimed it as evidence that matter is constantly tending to scatter, expand the limits of the universe...
Last week a few U. S. citizens with sporting friends abroad were eating grouse -plump red Scotch grouse sent by express steamers and heralded by cables giving warning of their shipment. For a fortnight the shotguns that the Scotch call "double pipe scatter guns" had been popping on the moors. King George was there to get a little shooting before seeing his new granddaughter (see p. 21). John Pierpont Morgan was at Gannochy Lodge and Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Hunt-hill, Brechin. Bernard Baruch could not stay but Silkman Emil Stehli and Charles Steele of the House of Morgan were...
...taxi strike became violent, culminated in a pitched battle. Like wolves, small packs of strikers ran about the streets of the East Liberty business district, threw bricks, stones, milk-bottles at every passing cab. They swooped down on parked cabs, drove off drivers, wrecked their machines. Gradually the scattered groups grew larger, coalesced into a thousand-headed monster thinking trouble. Every police reserve in the city raced to disperse the mob. Mounted police charged it unsuccessfully. When the rioting held up traffic, passengers piled out of street cars, joined the fight. Only after three hours did rioters scatter before tear...