Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total cost of the Administration's proposed "Big Navy" program having been fixed at some $1,500,000,000, to be spread over the next five to nine years and to include 74 ships plus men, aircraft and maintenance (TIME, Feb. 20), the Naval Affairs Committee of the House last week held caucus for Irate Citizens. Most of the talk focused on the ship program which, taken separately, totaled some...
Joyce Hawley at the Senior Spread was something the mind balked at. It was a master fiction, too mighty for the ordinary mind, and was given no credence at Harvard and only a brief consideration beside the Basin...
...Class Day Committe consists of the following: D. L. Garrison '28, treasurer; H. W. Burns '28 and A. H. O'Neil ;28, in charge of the Senior Spread; C. A. Pratt '28 in charge of the Chapel exercises; W. W. Lord '28 in charge of the Yard exercises; F. B. Cutts '28 and W. B. Jones '28 in charge of the Stadium exercises...
Most of the pictures were the images of flowers seen through two lenses; the first a powerful magnifying glass, the second the iris of a perspicacious inward eye, whose function was to give clarity a significance beyond the decorative. In the way a purple petunia spread its violent petals, there was a hint, a symbol for truths not necessarily too deep for words to reach but outside the meanings from which words have been derived. It is enough to say that Miss O'Keeffe's paintings are as full of passion as the verses of Solomon's Song...
...annoyed them when Sculptor Caoudal spread a true scandal about Fanny, saying that she was the nakedest and not the least contaminated of all the artists' models in Paris; but they were delighted when Fanny leaped upon this villain and clawed the collar off his neck. At the end, when Fanny slipped off to the country with her pure but honest well-beloved, interest waned. Bostonians had come to see Mary Garden do great and voluptuous acts of rage and excitement; satisfied in this desire, they decided that she had tilted a cracked mirror so that its faulty images...