Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hundreds of earthquakes visit the Island Empire of the East each year. Last week, came one that destroyed Toyooka and Tsuiyama, damaged the famous Kinosaki Springs, injured hundreds of people. Fire quickly spread to add its horror to the picture of Nature's desolation. The Province of Tajima lies to the northeast of Osaka on the main island of Hondo. The maximum intensity of the earthquake was felt some 80 miles from Osaka, which is situate on the south shore. Seismographs recorded horizontal vibrations measuring nearly three inches and lasting several minutes. Experts declared the shock the greatest...
...state of mind prevalent among business men, however, has recently changed. During the winter, a boom in trade was eagerly anticipated. When, by early spring, this common expectation was shown to be vain, an attitude of alarm spread to some extent. The collapse of stockmarket prices, the St. Paul receivership, the Hindenburg election and other untoward incidents were cited as indicative of calamities to come...
...Hasty Pudding Club will hold its Senior Spread on June 16 in the Club-house from 12 to 3.30, and from 5.30 to 7, Members who wish their names to appear on the invitations will remit $15 before May 22, for which they will receive four tickets to each spread...
...praised or decried, but not studied. It is not of course desirable that the Oxford system be separated in practice from the needs and hopes of those who are remoulding Harvard, but merely that it be studied as something real in itself rather than used as a phrase to spread still vaguer phrases...
...Hasty Pudding Club also announces that its Senior Spread will be held on June 16 in the Clubhouse from 12 to 3.30 and from 5.30 to 7. Men who wish their names to appear on invitations are asked to send $15 before May 22. These men will receive four tickets for each spread...