Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southerners, who pressed Yale hard and gained two touchdowns, said they thought the Blue offensive spread fairly effective and the interference good, but the defense for the kicker poor. They expressed the opinion that there was a danger of the Bulldogs punts being blocked since the kickers stood too close to the line of scrimmage in straining for distance...
...President Taft, is a power in Republican politics throughout the East. His welcome at the White House much resembles that accorded John T. Adams, Chairman of the National Committee. I ¶Taking the trowel with which George Washington had laid the cornerstone of the National Capitol, Mr. Coolidge spread the first mortar laying the cornerstone of a great monument to the first President. The memorial is being executed by the Free Masons of America, not far from Mount Vernon. Chief Justice Taft then wielded the trowel, followed by high Masonic dignitaries. The cornerstone was pronounced " true, trusty and well laid...
...boots as the sometimes effete children of Beacon Street, when they loll in dinner jackets, or decollate and lapis lazuli." "Cal he was, Cal he is." "Fate pointed the path and the country lost a Chief-Justice but found a President." When proposing to Miss Goodhue "he gently spread a kerchief upon the carpeted floor on Maple Street. With characteristic foresight even then he sought to protect his right pant, for trousers were not in those days worn in Burlington, as he knelt before his "ideal." "The family might with some reason adopt as its crest the Cal-la Lily...
...trouble. A Mr. Hughes says people are "living too fast". Minutes, as if by the touch of Midas, have been turned to gold. The vast economic development of recent years has undoubtedly increased and distributed wealth, but it has also, like all good things, its price. Because it has spread a money fever and because it requires in most of its responsible salaried positions specialists it has driven those who are unable or unwilling to take more time in their schooling specialization mad. And educational institutions throughout the country have been forced to rearrange themselves accordingly...
...human and animal waste, dead bodies and plants) into simpler nitrates and carbonates - forms which plants can utilize again. Without the participation of microbes in this cycle, life upon this planet would inevitably cease. Without them, civilized communities would long ago have been overwhelmed in their own waste products. Spread upon the surface of the earth, these become harmless through microbic activity. These upper layers of the soil are the ancestral home of the bacteria, where they are concentrated most thickly. Germs which break down organic matter in the soil are frequently attached to the roots of legumes (beans, peas...