Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon the supposed absence of braces for the said two-legged petticoats. The words were taken as they were uttered, and the young Princetonians received the chaff in the spirit in which it was given them, as gentlemen. They returned to Princeton, a college in New Jersey, and spread the news. It might have had; indeed was having its effect in Jonathan Edwards's brief home when the CRIMSON emitted an incendiary editorial which has caused confusion at Princeton and upset its academic life. It has implied that the Princeton men's pants were perfectly proper...
...contact with ideas which are utterly foreign to his field of concentration "Distribution" will not satisfy the need. It is arbitrary and incomplete. Nor can the need be met through selection of courses. In view of divisional examinations and his own scholastic standing a student can not spread his courses as he would like...
...Reinhardt Galleries went these artists, beheld what hung upon the walls, announced that they pitied the future Governor, that the Pitts- burgh society had their sympathy. They stood before the canvases, spread their legs into sententious V's, curled their lips. Others gazed, rapt, at the same canvases, like people brought before the face of holiness. A few, however, neither knelt nor mocked. "What," asked these, "are the virtues that have made Zuloaga famous ? Wliat are the faults that have made him popular?" Coldly, they considered...
...British army, the "contemptibles", at Mons and at the Marne, and later held a very prominent position under the Chief of Staff of the British Army. Yet he seemed to fit perfectly into the office in the Widener Library stacks where he was studying several books on General Lee spread out before him on the desk. Someone once spoke of him as the "scholar in arms" and the name has stuck...
Miami readers will also have spread before them "signed editorials," of which the following (from the Illustrated Daily News) is a fair example...