Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ernst Lubitsch, whom most people recognize as the foremost master of cinema comedy and point to as a particularly baffling example of how a man can be light and Teutonic at the same time. It is the atmosphere of old Heidelberg that interests him mainly. The story is spread thin-being nothing more unusual than the one about the princeling who went to college and fell in love with the barmaid. But the beer-quaffing, the jolly good-fellowship and the intrusion at odd moments of the ridiculous pomposities that beset princes of every romance, are the details that Director...
...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, was held a Radio World's Fair. Three hundred and one exhibits of receiving sets, binding posts, crystals, coils, batteries were spread over three floors of the building. Some sets sold for less than $10, others for more than $2,000. Experts noted with enthusiasm the predominance of sets featuring the single control lever and operating without batteries from an electric light socket. In their opinion such simplification of radio apparatus will do much to bring instruments into the 21,000,000 U. S. homes that out of a total...
Meantime, rumors spread. The lonely bachelor monarch was again looking for a mate to share his throne. And busybodies-imperious dowagers, pseudo-diplomats, plain tittle-tattlers-began guessing, as they do each year that Boris takes a few days off, as to whom he might choose as his Queen. Names of all the probable and improbable princesses were pondered; the political effects of a dozen possible liasons were dis- cussed and expanded to absurd proportions. But to no avail...
Wave. But on the west coast, almost certainly due to the Pacific submarine earthquake (see JAPAN), a tidal wave, said to have been more than 1,000 miles long and of mountainous proportions in height, spread death and destruction...
...fire could not be perceived until the whole surrounding air began to be illuminated by it. The fire was conjectured to have started in the room used by the General Court; thence it burst into the Library. The books easily submitted to the progress of the flame, which spread through the whole building, and in a short time this venerable monument to the piety of our ancestors was reduced to a heap of ashes. The other Colleges, Stoughton Hall and Massachusetts Hall, were in the danger of sharing the same fate... But by the blessing of God upon the vigorous...