Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither here nor abroad were there any pandemic outbreaks of disease last year, and in no country with a modern public health organization did pestilences spread. India continues to harbor bubonic plague, as do French Indo-China, China, Algeria, Madagascar, Nigeria, Siam, Argentina, Ecuador, South Africa, Greece, Russia. Two people in California, however, caught bubonic plague last year-from ground squirrels...
...women spread their sails and travel...
...protesting against the sluggish formalism of the English churches, declared that every man must experience a personal revelation of God, an "Inward Light," which availed more than mere parroting of Scripture. After the organization of the first Quaker community in Lancashire, the movement spread rapidly through northern England and Wales...
When news of the Marconi collapse spread to the Stock Exchange floor, a selling movement produced sharp declines in several of the favorite dull issues. The advance of call money from 8 to 10%, and the anticipation of large increases in loans to brokers also helped unsettle the market. Radio Corp. of America dropped more than 12 points, Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck, Wright Aero, Victor Talking Machine, Packard Motor and many another stock declined from 5 to 15 points. Other slumping stocks also began to climb back, the market finally re-asserting its prevailing bullish trend. Observers pointed out that...
...direction have all been pinned with a wave of the hand to the cloak of obscurity which covers the Great British University. In spite of the fact that the most recent Oxford news doesn't prove much, critics may cherish it for occasions when the ointment of glorification is spread a bit too thick...