Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total estimated cost would be $3,845,659,481 spread over a period of 44 years...
...other and main end of tonight's meeting will be to focus and get across to the team the confidence which the undergraduate body has in its ability to master the Bull-dog. A wide-spread panic which followed the game on Saturday has given place, through the process of sober second thought, to a calmer and more reasonable frame of mind. Fortunately this does not nor will not approach over-confidence. Yale never met Harvard without the firm determination to win, and there is no reason to believe that its playing on Saturday will be in any degree inferior...
...hand the placid, prudent, elderly English gentleman [Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford] with his 20,000 men spread around the beaches, the front lines sitting on the tops of shallow trenches, smoking and cooking, with here and there an occasional rifle shot, others bathing by hundreds in the bright blue bay where, disturbed hardly by a single shell, floated the great ships of the war; on the other the skillful German [General Liman von Sanders] stamping with impatience for the arrival of his divisions, expecting with every hour to see his scanty covering forces brushed aside, while the furious Kemal...
...amateur devotee in search of mentors to guide him through the mazes of art has never had greater riches spread before him than in the present season. Sir William Orpen's Outline (TIME, Oct. 15) is pretty narrowly limited to painting. One wishing a diverting catalogue of the famous individual pictures of the world need go no further...
...this seat of learning, I suppose that nothing need really have been said at all. I am, however, unable to deny myself the pleasure of inquiring whether Mr. Sinclair's absence from the Harvard-Yale football games posterior to 1916 was intended as a protest against the insidious spread of "Romanism" among our players? I am-- Very Sincerely HUGH WHITNEY...