Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Invisible intelligencers spread the news in the great ant hill. Squads of ant firemen advanced into the tunnel, attacked the flames, carried out smoke-blackened passengers. Many were injured, none killed. Scores of ant officials with ant authority hurried to investigate...
Food-and-fun-loving Charles Dickens told unctuously in A Christmas Carol how "The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks" for just such a feast as the City of London spread before Edward of Wales last week...
Hence the development of the radial air-cooled airplane engine. In this type 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 9 cylinders radiate like spokes from a common centre. Each cylinder bristles with thin metal fins which absorb the engine's heat and spread it to the cooler...
...dove of peace is never more than a transient visitor in several famous parts of the world, but in the last decade there has been no country quite as inhospitable as China. Barely a year had elapsed since that patient bird spread its wings over what was hoped to be a united nation under the banking regime. But last week the news dispatches carried the old story--the dragons of war have broken loose again and frightened the timid creature back to its Geneva sanctuary. The details are not unusual. A defeated general raises an army; a force sent...
...clean aromatic smell of raw pine wood spread through the White House. Excelsior littered the floors. Busy workmen in overalls came and went. Mrs. Coolidge was packing. Into 150 new boxes, crates and barrels under her careful eye went objets d'art, china, books, whittling knives, stag antlers, desk sets, etc. etc.- symbols of a people's free-handed affection for their President. Eight Coolidge trunks entered the White House in 1923; 16 trunks will go back to Northampton, Mass., not to mention all the barrels, boxes, crates. "It is," President Coolidge remarked, "easier to get into...