Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thirds of a century ago the desert provinces which later bred war and whose present place as a storm center of controversy was emphasized by the award, were regarded as worthless, and the boundary lines of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia in that territory were but roughly defined. Then the spread of scientific farming methods, and the inadequacy of the South American guano deposits to meet the demand for fertilizing nitrates, led to the discovery and exploitation of the vast desert deposits in the Tacna-Arica districts...
...weedy patches of this sea are believed to be the breeding place of eels, which spread thence to the shores of neighboring continents...
...make the theatre such a refection of the minority that you show only one-sided life. Whatever artistry there may be in the best of your morbid plays is obscured by their ugliness, and, worse, they breed more spread plays, lacking even in the serious purpose of the forerunners...
...Springfield, Mass, capitalists decided to build a hotel, announced that on the roof of the business building next their site they, would construct "the world's most unusual roof garden." Loam four inches deep will cover the roof. In the middle will stand a fountain. All around will spread gravel walks, flower beds, grass plots. At night, the garden will be lighted by imitation park-lanterns; in the winter it will be kept at a heat proper for flowers and grass. Tables will be spread the year round. Guests of the hotel may enjoy fountain, flowers, lights, upon...
Probably it started in football. Back in the nineties some chauvinistic Eli declared that his team contained the eleven greatest players, in the country. Then Walter Camp caught the idea, and now his All-American football team is a national institution. But the passion for "all-stars" has spread far beyond the confines of athletics alone; picking the five best this and the ten best that has become the favorite occupation of the intelligentsia. Periodicals are flooded with lists innumerable of the five greatest Americans, the ten greatest novels, and Vanity Fair has even drawn up a list...