Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quickly the news spread throughout the land-a land that had barely recovered from the shock of the ghastly murder of three members of the Arnaud family only three weeks before. A radio message carried the news to M. Theodore Steeg, returning from Marseilles to the Residency at Rabat. "Do the impossible to obtain the release of the four prisoners," wirelessed back the Resident General...
...collected by Dr. Rock himself, but by a skilled native bird hunter who accompanied him in his botanical explorations of the region around Tibet from 1924 to 1927 for the Arnold Arboretum. The collection includes birds ranging all the way from humming-birds to bearded eagles with a wing spread of ten feet. The region from which these birds have been sent is largely unexplored by Europeans, as the fierce native tribes repel all intrusions of foreigners, and Dr. Rock succeeded only because of his long experienced with the Tibetan tribes...
Many rumors spread during the week to the effect that there had been unnecessary brutality and killings. In all 82 executions were reported. For example it was alleged that General Francisco Serrano had been "murdered" while at the dinner table with 13 of his aides. None could doubt that there had been much cruel and useless bloodshed; but the revolt was seemingly over, despite rumors to the contrary and assertions of bandit terrorism, which probably had nothing to do with the revolt. And that, in the opinion of most observers, was that. Protests from foreign powers seemed unlikely, the rumpus...
...functions of the Alumni Association are, in addition to publishing the Alumni Bulletin, the maintenance of an appointment bureau for graduates at Wadsworth House and the management of the Commencement Day spread for graduates in Sever Quadrangle...
...present Commission, appointed by the President and Fellows of the University, is now undertaking detailed research work to determine the nature of the agencies which communicate infantile paralysis," said Mr. Pierce. "Raw milk is one of the few positively known means by which the disease is spread. To prevent this spreading, pasteurization should be employed. As for checking and curing the disease, Massachusetts and Vermont officials, cooperating with the Harvard Commission, believe they are on the road to success in abating infantile paralysis by the use of a serum made from the blood of human beings who have...