Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...antagonism spread to other officers and then throughout the army. Eventually, after Deniken had suffered military reverses, he was obliged to flee to Constantinople, and the army chose Baron Wrangel as its leader by acclaim...
...terrified and superstitious population touched the apogee of panic, last week, when a rumor spread that Divine Vengeance had fallen because of a specific and impious act of the Bulgarian Parliament. This act was to meet and discuss the project of a U. S. loan on a Holy Day, namely last Good Friday...
...twelve good chemists and true; the medal was presented by the Chicago section of the society. Atomic pictures are not his only passport to professional prestige. In various oil-and-water experiments he has earned the gratitude of oilmen. By pouring oil on water and letting the oil layer spread out to the thickness of one molecule he has been able to measure the exact size of the molecule and calculate the force with which it clings to the water...
...always, business was stimulated by the spectacular. Spread out over the waspish little ship in which Bleriot first flew across the English Channel, stood the huge trimotored plane in which Commander Richard E. Byrd hopes to conquer the Antarctic. Opposite stood a model of the first Wright machine, in which man first made an honest flight a quarter of a century...
...deficit for the past several years and can scarcely continue functioning through the present twelvemonth if financial aid is not speedily forthcoming from the U. S. Director Dr. Shepard of the Hospital and School has economized and scrimped. The nurses now in training who go out upon graduation to spread U. S. medical methods in Turkey are now cooped up in such quarters that four or five must sleep in a small room. Financier Morgan was impressed by what he saw and heard, last week, but sometimes even great philanthropists are tardy about giving aid. Therefore generous and perspicacious...