Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position always to receive valuable aid and advice from an experienced predecessor who will be on hand to help him. These appear to be the chief reasons advanced to explain this innovation in managerial policy,--an innovation which, provided it works well in one instance, may spread much farther...
Despite this shrewd secrecy, on the part of General McCoy, a story spread like wildfire among ignorant Nicaraguan natives that those who do not vote for the Conservative candidate (supposed to be favored by President Coolidge) will find themselves poisoned by the stain...
Smoke Clouds. Near Stuttgart, Germany, guns spit up bombs; the bombs burst in air and from them spread wide layers of smoke clouds. Flyers in planes could not see terrain or buildings below the smoke. The device seemed a good protection to the Germans against an inimical air attack...
...inconspicuous scientist had millions of cattle killed and buried, to the funeral dirge of their owners' vituperations. In the hilly North, where burial space was scarce, he drove sick cattle into the valley and blasted the mountainsides to fill in a natural grave. Warned that the curse had spread to wild deer, and assured that shooting a few would scatter the rest, he directed silencers to be used on the guns. Hunters deprived of their prey stormed in wrath, bereaved cattlemen still grumbled, but the disease was stamped...
...retort to the Denver Smith speech, Senator Moses said: "Mr. Facing-Both-Ways has again descended from his eleven-car million-dollar special train to spread light and learning in those sections of the country which are unaccustomed to the effulgence of the Brown Derby. ... He misrepresents, distorts, bisects sentences and employs periphrastic phrases to make his points. . . . The candidate neglects to say that three of his own chief financial backers in this campaign-Messrs. Young, Brady and Ryan-are also leaders of the power trust...