Word: scatteringly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave most undergraduates time to finish up their examinations and flee the city of heat, but a few wretches are still basting their brains. By the time that this spell is passed, Commencement will be a thing of the present, and with that once over, the college community will scatter to every corner of the globe where amusement or work can be found...
Chickie. So fast do the new cinema actresses come that even the professional observer must struggle to keep them straight. Dorothy Mackaill is the latest to scatter her charms convincingly across the greater part of a picture. She is not exactly new-but she is just becoming recognized. Beyond the beauty parlor attributes, she possesses humor and imagination. Whether she has the irresistible something that makes the great popular heroines is difficult to say. Yet any picture in which she plays can't be entirely bad. Chickie is a fair example. She is a young stenographer who quarrels with...
...child of cinema chance, whom Barrie picked for the part from a photograph, will be the Peter the present and succeeding generations of U. S. childhood will cherish. From the greatest cavern of the city auditorium to the stuffy second-floor hall of the farm village Miss Bronson will scatter her gospel. She will scatter it through the medium of an uncannily adapted personality blended into a great picture that is at once beautiful, wise and faithful to its great tradition...
...qualified by the symbolic significance of a picture bequeathed by a dying Forsyte. It was a Chinese work, depicting a "large whitish sidelong monkey, holding the rind of a squeezed fruit in its outstretched paw." The picture is commented on as a perfect allegory. "Eat the fruits of life, scatter the rinds, and get copped doing it," says one of its observers; ... a monkey's eyes are the human tragedy incarnate...
...colloidal suspension in gases and should be governed by the same general laws that prevail in colloidal action in liquids and solids. The sand tanks on the airplanes are flied with 120 mesh silica sand. When a cloud in found to have a negative charge positively charged particles are scattered at the extreme top; when the cloud has a positive charge negatively charged sand particles are scattered at the extreme top; and if the cloud has no charge, it is first charged one way, and then dispersed by attacking it with the opposite charge. The clouds immediately condense and disappear...