Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hebrew religion grew up inside a strict wall shutting it off from the outside world. In the midst of this religion Jesus sowed his teaching, yet it was so free from this wall of restricting rights that when in Paul's time this wall was broken down, it spread and became the religion of the Western world...
...grounds. With the present force of fifty men, the field will be finished about the middle of next month. At present they are digging trenches all over the 20 acres, in which the gravel from the now levelled banks is put, while the loam thus thrown up is spread 10 inches thick over the entire surface. The dike is being strengthened against the tide; and the few remaining acres beyond will be gradually filled by college refuse. A few trees have been left, thus breaking the monotony of the level ground. The whole field will be drained through a tide...
...greater rather than less recognition and encouragement. While the principal colleges would seize the opportunity to step into the position of leadership abandoned by Harvard, many of the smaller colleges would be obliged to lower their standard to correspond with ours, and the injury done would there by be spread far and wide. In comparison with this far-reaching moral effect, and this injury to the prestige and influence of the university, the question of whether the average Harvard graduate evolved by the arithmetical process from the numerical tables of ages shall be a few months younger or older...
...Society will spread from six to eight in Massachusotts and receive in Thayer 41, 42, 43, 44, 60, 64, and Weld...
...Delta Upsilon will spread in University from five to seven...