Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stack of the steam launch had blown off and sunk to the bottom of the river. The "John Harvard" was no longer able to keep up team, and lay drifting helplessly in the middle of the Charles. The boat was towed back to the boathouse, where a rumor quickly spread that tomorrow the river will be dredged for the missing smoke-stack...
Were riots merely absurd they would cause no great concern, but unfortunately they are alarmingly dangerous things. They begin in nothings and spread rapidly to unrestrainable proportions. That last year's disturbance did not lead to serious accidents or to deaths was entirely a matter of good fortune nor is this an exaggerated statement. And it did terminate in a great expense, in a great deal of hard feeling, and in serious consequences for the offenders. The Freshmen of course have no memory of that nor of the great riot several years ago and the impossible situation which it created...
...moral breakdown has taken place over the whole social body. Moral and religious education has been practically banished from America. Although knowledge of mythological gods is required by many universities for graduation, no knowledge of the Christian God is demanded. Animal philosophy has even spread to the modern dance. It has become nothing but a hugging match. The old dancing of fifty years ago compares to modern dancing as milk does to hypochloric acid...
...fact is that Japan is laying the foundation of a permanent colonization on the Pacific slope, which will spread quickly to other parts of the West...
...these interests combined to make Herr Hugo, ordinary member of the Reichstag, a most extraordinary and sinister figure in politics. It has been sad that German Governments heed his command or fail; that, when angry, the thunder of his voice and the lightning of his eyes spread terror into the European industrial world...