Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moore graduated from Marietta College in 1877 and was a graduate of Union Theological Seminary in 1884. Since 1905 he has been Chairman of the Board of College Preachers, and since 1915. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. He is the author of many books on theological subjects, wrote "The Spread of Christianity in the Modern World" and "West and East" in 1919, and in 1925 was editor, with Professor A. T. Davison, of "The Harvard University Hymn Book...
...bureau endeavored to correct the misinterpretation of its report. But scare of sunlight, natural and artificial, had already spread throughout the country...
...declare herself artistically, when French frippery first seemed foolish and the longings of the Slavic soul important. Great Russian composers are Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky. They too with Glinka. Balakirev and Cui were pioneers in the school of realism. Yet compared with the less Russian Tchaikovsky their fame has spread so slowly that even today outside Russia Moussorgsky is known for his Boris Godounov alone and that in the refined version of Rimsky-Korsakov made popular by Basso Feodor Chaliapin...
...Baker Library of the Business School dates from the very early days when fire fighting, instead of being a purely personal matter, began to be conducted by an organized group. The first volunteer fire company was started in Philadelphia about 1740 by Benjamin Franklin and the system soon spread to the rest of the colonies. Before the introduction of these companies every respectable house holder kept a pair of leathern buckets in his room. When a fire occurred the townspeople pulled out the fire engine, a crude, hand-worked pump which they kept filled by means of bucket chains extending...
...weight-equivalent in freight. Boeing and Curtiss have big planes in trial. Larger are the Keystone Patrician and the Chapman Airliner, both new developments. Each can carry 20 passengers and each shortly will make a transcontinental demonstration tour. Largest of course is Consolidated's new Admiral. Its wing spread is 100 feet, its body 60 feet long. Its twin motors carried it last week at more than 100 miles per hour. Waiting as a reward for the Navy tests was a commercial order for Consolidated...