Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris from a round-the-world tour on behalf of the Alliance Française, international society to promote French culture. At the 21st birthday dinner of the Alliance Française Biographer Maurois who prides himself on his fluent, accentless English reported to his employers on the spread of the French language abroad. "I rejoice," said he, "that England is a country where real progress is being made in the study of correct, modern French. In Canada they speak French, but it is 17th Century French, adapted to new uses. . . . At Stockholm you hear the pedantic French...
...notorious reputation of English A1 must have spread beyond the confines of Cambridge to affright prospective Freshmen. This year sees 170 of the class of 1933 allowed to pursue more interesting fields of knowledge, while their more unfortunate classmates are subjected to the pressure of the educational machine, which is supposed in this particular instance, to turn out the enlightened English student...
...gradual spread in the college of the system of general examinations and tutors from a small beginning in one department seventeen years ago to practically all undergraduate work speaks for itself. Carrying ahead the same concept of a liberal education from the undergraduate to the professional field the leaders of the School of Business Administration hope to give further stimulus to those men who are able to go ahead in a definite field of study. From the point of view of the university as a whole the extension of the idea of individual responsibility to the Business School is another...
Wise in the ways of Chicago political expediency, Boss Granata had printed and circulated hand bills, calculated to spread ruin throughout the "old-line" camp, swing the mass of unaffiliated voters to his side. The remainder of the handbills were kept at independent headquarters, to be flourished as a fiery cross on election...
...rumor, spread in last night's Boston press that Mal Stevens, Yale football coach, intended to resign his post to Adam Walsh at the end of the season, regardless of what luck the Bulldogs had, was emphatically denied last night by the Yale News...