Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both before and after the War, and the weighted judgment of a Parliamentarian 16 years in the House. Briefly, Laborite Ponsonby seeks to destroy at least a portion of "the weapon of falsehood" forged by Allied propagandists during the War, and more especially to unmask the more notorious lies spread by "the British official propaganda department at Crewe House under Lord Northcliffe." For good measure and impartiality certain German War lies are also exposed. Most significant, amid present hue and cry against Soviet Russian propaganda, is evidence here cited that 10,500 paid British propagandists were operating throughout...
Then would the sponges be sold in the one-story brick building called the Sponge Exchange. Yellow, soft, they would be spread on the grey concrete floor like a grotesque splash of sunlight. Purchasers would appraise, make anonymous bids. If the sellers would not sell, a second bid would be made, perhaps a third. But if the third bid was also rejected the Law of the Sponge Exchange has it that the sponges may no longer be offered for sale...
Well! That was quite a blast that you had in the Dec. 17 issue of TIME under the heading of "Education." The instigators of this must have thought quite well of themselves in being able to spread misstatements and false impressions...
...admitted, donned the rude brown habit with hempen girdle, the sandals on his bare feet. That was two years ago. Word of his entering the monastery spread through the land...
...long and Dancer Duncan returned to France where in 1927 she died, strangely strangled by one of her own scarfs when it caught in a wheel of her motor car.* Back in Moscow, the seed she had planted took root, flourished. Irma Duncan, an adopted daughter, had stayed to spread the gospel and teach children, just as the Great Isadora had taught her, to know music and translate it freely into bodily movement. Last week with twelve best pupils Dancer Irma arrived in Manhattan to begin there a ten-day memorial festival. Her first program, featuring Impressions of Revolutionary Russia...