Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other side of the picture becomes less inviting when it becomes obvious that the opium habit is destined to spread amazingly under the stimulus of cheapened drugs. To believe that the future manufacturer of opium will be more amenable to government control than the present poppy farmer is highly optimistic. A vested interest of the West will merely replace a vested interest of the East...
...Senior Spread and Dance, Memorial Hall...
...epidemic of smallpox that last month broke out in Philadelphia, appeared, last week, to have spread to Washington and, in less degree, to Baltimore. Negro quarters of these cities were focal areas for the infection. Mortality was between 11% and 35%, indicating a virulent strain of organism...
...from an overdose of morphine, locked (from the inside) in the wardrobe of a hotel room in London. There is a balcony before the room window, so that anyone on the same floor of the hotel and of another hotel adjoining might have committed the murder. The clues are spread out before the reader with commendable fairness, but in baffling number. Two plots are so skilfully woven together that one has to wait for the writer to unravel them. Not until two-thirds of the way through the book does the writer find it necessary to conceal from the reader...
Richard Hinckley Field '26, of Phillips, Me., was named yesterday by the Class Day Committee as head usher for Class Day from the Junior Class. At the same time, Nathaniel Saltonstall Howe '26, of New York City, was appointed head usher for the Senior Spread, and Ranlet Miner '25 of Rochester, N. Y., was made Tree Orator. Announcement was also made of the winners of the contests for the Baccalaureate Hymn and for the designs of the Yard. Stadium, and Memorial Hall tickets. The Hymn selected was written by Hugh Whitney '25, of Paris, France, and the winning ticket designs...