Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sale of tickets for the annual Phillips Brooks House Class Day Spread on June 16 continues at the pace which it has maintained so far, the Spread this year will even surpass the one held last year at which more than 400 guests made an appearance...
...event that the weather should turn out to be inclement the Spread will be held inside Phillips Brooks House instead of behind Holworthy Hall, whence it has been shifted this year, due to the intrusion of Lionel and Jersey Halls into the quadrangle formerly formed by Phillips Brooks House, Hollis Hall, and Harvard Hall...
Judging by newspaper accounts of it, the annual freshman riot at Yale was a great success. As institutions, a class spread, or a picnic, or a jubilee may be well enough in their way, but Yale freshmen are sure that for downright fun a good, democratic riot, with bonfires to dance around, and bottles to throw, and instructors to throw at--why there's no comparison...
...impossible, were there cause, but war with the Soviet is possible and probable. "China will join Russia against Japan because of her resentment over the 21 demands.* . . . "Japan made a big mistake in recognizing Russia. Despite her solemn pledge to the contrary, the Russians are doing their best to spread communism in Japan and Korea, as they are doing in China...
...observing. Also last week, inhabitants of the human world attending" a tea-party at the New York Zoological Park (the Bronx) beheld two creatures new and strange-two fabulous white-breasted birds, from whose relatively small bodies grew sweeping scythes of wings seven inches in width, eight feet in spread. They were Galapagos albatrosses sent-together with marine iguanas-by Explorer Beebe to the New York Zoological Society...