Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Alumni Bulletin is an appreciation which the Boston Transcript reprints, of the work done by the ubiquitous and nebulous Student Vagabond. Rightly or wrongly, he is given credit for the spread of a new word in the local vocabulary, the verb to vagabond-meaning to attend lectures at which one's presence will not be noticed by the Dean's office, for the sole purpose of hearing what is said...
Lisbon. Through a cordon of vociferous police a band of students sprang. Shouting greetings they swung cloaks off their shoulders and spread them for the feet of Miss Ruth Elder. Touched, she thanked them; excited and faintly afraid of the pushing Portugese she clung to the arm of Fred Morris Dearing, American Minister to Portugal. Lisbon revelled. As she stepped to the mainland of Europe (14 days almost to the hour after taking off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, with pilot George W. Haldeman for a transatlantic flight which ended when they were hoisted from the ocean off the Azores...
...flop about as he explains the case. "This man," he says in effect, "is in the early stages of paresis.* The paralysis has not advanced hopelessly. By injecting into his blood the germs of malaria or serum from the blood of people sick with malaria, we will stop the spread of the syphilis. The malaria toxins, in some way not yet conclusively proved, counteract the toxins of syphilitic spirochetes. We have patients so treated who for ten years now have been able to live and work normally. Without this malaria treatment they probably would be insane or dead...
...smell of soiled bandages, disinfectants and decay. It was opened in 1869 when New York established the first ambulance service in the U. S. Its building, for decades muggy and stuffy, is older. De Witt Clinton, onetime (1803-15) Mayor of New York, laid the cornerstone in 1811. Grass spread about it then; the East River was a pleasant prospect. Now all is grime and noise...
...pained and indignant that it is possible for anyone to spread such idiotic and calumnious tales," said the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, scotching a report that Princess Ileana, her youngest daughter, had eloped with a married but fascinatingly handsome naval lieutenant and, balked, had tried to commit suicide...