Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoped, a great deal of coaching can certainly be done by Seniors and Juniors. On the other, however, I more than doubt the wisdom of placing complete control of House athletics in the hands of the several captains. Inevitable disagreements with the captain's general policy and wide spread disapproval of patently faulty judgment in his picking and handling of men are frequently encountered here at Cambridge, and are generally of a more disagreeable sort than similar dissatisfaction with a graduate or professional coach. Harvard is fortunate in having constantly at hand a large number of fine athletes...
...Thousands stood huddled along London curbstones to see and judge for themselves. Beloved George V was coming home at last to Buckingham Palace after his long convalescence at the rustic royal estate of Sandringham. At spick-and-span King's Cross Station a long red carpet had been spread. Baron Byng of Vimy stood stiff and medal-spangled at one end. As Chief of London's Police he was alert and anxious. This time) the route which Royalty would take to the Palace had not been kept secret, as is usual. If there were anyone in England with...
Results. As to "results" of the break, the most important question could not be answered, i. e.: to what extent would the Bear psychology of the market spread to business generally? Through last week, optimism was certainly more pronounced than pessimism. Stock brokers were far more pessimistic than businessmen. Being, especially in the lower ranks, a provincially Manhattan lot, they seemed to think the Stockmarket would be disgraced if Business did not humbly follow its lead. Outside of lower Manhattan, Detroit was the gloomiest spot, the depths being reached by the jocular motor executive who seemed to feel that never...
...opportunities presented by the Harvard Law School cannot be duplicated anywhere in this country, and possibly not abroad. The large number of foreign students at the school today amply reflects the importance which is attached to the school in other countries, and the Pugsley gift will materially help to spread its reputation further...
...newspaper articles calling upon him either to suppress Poland's parliamentary institutions entirely or permit the Sejm to reconvene. At last Pilsudski's gruff consent was given. Deputies scurried up to Warsaw. Then last week, half an hour before Speaker Daszynski's gavel was due to fall, a rumor spread that the National Democratic and Socialist Deputies were going to rush through a vote of no-confidence in the Government...