Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laboratory where, under a microscope, he made a terrible discovery: the grubs were larvae of Halterophora capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly), most vicious and destructive of dipterous pests, never before found in the U. S. Out went the alarm over Florida. Inspection showed that the infestation had spread through three counties ?Seminole, Orange and Lake American Legionaries volunteered as fruit inspectors...
...patients at his Monrovia, Calif., sanatorium.* His philosophy of treating the disease for 28 years has included psychology with therapeutics. He lectures to his patients, explains to them the various ways that tuberculosis affects various people and their organs, why certain treatments are used, the ways of preventing the spread of infection. By answering all questions and avoiding obscurantism he has kept his patients from worry, that great handicap against treatment. His book, in which he organized his lectures, has been in wide demand. Last autumn he revised it and recently C. V. Mosby of St. Louis published the second...
...time has proved most likely to be valuable. Without much doubt there has been too much of this sort of thing: and President Lowell as head of one of the colleges in America which has been most successful in instilling an "appetite for intellectual things" is well qualified to spread a more reasonable gospel among the secondary schools...
...Senior dinner dance, which corresponds to the Senior Spread in the College, will be held this year in some Boston hotel. Dr. Charles G. Pike, who is in charge of social affairs at the Dental School, is handling this affair, together with members of the school who are giving the dance in honor of the Senior class. This dance will be held on Monday, June 17, the same night that the College Seniors convene in Memorial Hall...
...glittering table like two horseshoes laid end to end was spread in the Hall of the Americas at the Pan-American Union Building. Mr. Gann found his seat seventh from the foot of one horseshoe. On his left was Mrs. William Braden, wife of the Chilean copper operator. On his right was a Mrs. Paul Wooton, wife of the Washington correspondent of the New Orleans Times-Picayune...