Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City's flashiest, dashiest, most expensive nightclubs (TIME, July 9). Last week, 45 more of the district's 20,000-odd nightclubs and speakeasies were proceeded against. Also, last week, the persons made defendants by the first raids were indicted. The Federal activity began to spread to roadhouses in New York's wet suburbs. Seymour Lowman, Acting Secretary of the Treasury,* said the work in the New York area had "only just started." It was again denied that the raids were timed for political effect...
From bank to bank, from bar to bar, news of ousted Tilden spread. Even before EXTRAS appeared, groups of U. S. undergraduates were arguing bitterly about "a dirty rabbit-punch from back home/' The minority side of the argument was that "the young players were better off without Tilden bossing them around, anyway." Frenchmen, almost without exception, said that Tilden had been treated unfairly.*They had heard a rumor that Lacoste was going to write articles for American newspapers.† The Parisian mind could not bring itself to understand what writing had to do with tennis eligibility. Not since...
Each of the rumors thus reducing each other to absurdity was cabled by a U. S. or British correspondent of standing. Spanish newspapers, censored, added by their mumness to spread of scandal by word of mouth...
...drag net for evidence of the sunken continent will be spread for the most part around the Azores, because in addition to the myths of the past, a recent U. S. Navy surveying expedition brought back bathymetric maps of a submerged plateau with terraced shores in this vicinity...
...beginning was a stencil his career from that time on was not. He played shortstop, then second base; he batted well. He made an enemy, Bill Hinchman, Pittsburgher, and came near fighting with him every time he saw him; he made many friends, some of them newspapermen who spread his name across their pages. In 1925 the Cardinals were doing badly; early in June Manager "Sunday School" Branch Rickey was ousted, Hornsby was made manager. Except that his face and hands were cleaner, he still looked much the same as he did when he played in Hugo-wiry and compact...