Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Spread their fragrance everywhere...
...Famine spread her black wings o'er the land...
...light fixed on his hat, to illumine the way. They were about to seat themselves around the table, when suddenly the calcium light gave out and left them in the dark. The Secretary, attempting to light the gas, found to his amazement that it had been turned off. Consternation spread over all. After some deliberation, Professor Lever suddenly recollected that he had in his pocket a tallow candle, which he kept to reduce the friction of his pulleys. This was lighted, and peace temporarily restored. When the house was called to order, the light shed by the single tallow candle...
...entered the Law School he attracted general attention by his industry and knowledge. Some time after he became a practising lawyer he was persuaded, much against his inclination, to enter politics, and since then his fame, which began with his oration on the Fourth of July, 1845, has spread over our own country and Europe. Many proofs has he given of his worth as a man; but the people, by the sadness that has filled their hearts at his death, have shown most conclusively that Sumner was truly great...
...were much surprised to learn that an impression has spread to some extent among graduates that the columns of the Magenta are not open to them. This we understand has been inferred from the style of our heading, which says that the paper "is published by the students of. Harvard College." Now, publishing a paper is a far different thing from contributing to it, and this wording was never meant to preclude contributions on pertinent subjects from outsiders, particularly from graduates of the College...