Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Student Volunteer Movement was founded in the early 'nineties at Princeton. It has since spread to all parts of the world. More than 10,000 graduates of American colleges have taken up Protestant missionary work through its direction. Its membership in England and Ireland alone is over 16,000 students...
Last Winter devastating news spread across the country to the effect that the Hippodrome was to be destroyed in favor of a huge hotel. Agitated parents found themselves feverishly hiding newspapers from Eleanor and little Ned who had been promised a trip to the Hippodrome since year before last. The deal hung fire, the hotel plan was discarded, and E. F. Albee purchased the Hippodrome to display Keith vaudeville. Last week it opened...
...stadium from one colonnade to the other, to which the canvas would be attached. The canvas would be arranged so that it could be raised and lowered easily. It would thus, according to Major Moore, serve a triple purpose. First, it would render unnecessary the hay which is spread over the field every night in the closing weeks of the season. Second, it could be raised high enough to make it possible for practice to be held under its shelter on a rainy day. Finally, and perhaps most important of all, it would be used as a watershed to ensure...
...effects of the war are evidently still working themselves out. Crowns have been rolled out of Russia and Germany and made practically impotent in Italy. Now the contagion has spread into the Balkans...
...view of the wide-spread popular sentiment in favor of letting wartime offenses be bygones, President Coolidge has taken the wise course. There is also the probability that before very long these restless spirits will again place themselves in a similar position of active opposition to the present social order. Although it will be a much more difficult task to dispose of them, without the aid of the summary proceeding incidental to a state of war, the fact that they are old offenders will make convictions and long-term imprisonments more acceptable to a certain niceness of the public taste...