Word: spreaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have rigged up great bulletin boards, on which are posted at regular intervals, commendable--we suppose--samples of advertising matter. Here are flaunted before the eyes of all passers-by, whether they would see them or no, placards for this brand of shoe polish or that type of manure spreader. Glaring in huge type, on highly-colored cardboard, these display cards are an eyesore and an insult to the majority of the students who use the library. However "commendable" they may be on the signboard, in the street car, or on the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, they...
Trotzky is a general without an arm. Communists have denounced him as a perverter of Bolshevik ideals and a spreader of untruth concerning. "Saint" Lenin. His party suspects him of having designs to usurp the dead leader's place, and change the name of Leningrad to "Trotzkgrad". He is feared especially because the five consonants coming together in the name "Trotzkgrad" make a strong appeal to every true Russian heart...
...this medieval precautionary measure has persisted to an age when it is usually unnecessary; the deliberate murderer nowadays shoots with his left hand quite as skilfully as with his right. And with the advance of medical science has come the knowledge that this apparently harmless custom is a dangerous spreader of disease germs. President Coolidge is doubtless acting for the health of the nation in refusing to tolerate an unsanitary practice...