Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father. Perhaps that was why her heart beat high in 1919 when she, a musical comedy girl, met a tall, blonde gentleman by the name of Robert Peel-the great-grandson of the great Sir Robert. In 1920 she married him, became mistress of haloed Drayton Hall. Her fame spread through two continents as the frolicsome dancer of Chariot's Revue. But her husband, neither statesman nor footlight celebrity remained one of those Englishmen with 10,000 acres and nothing particular to do. A Peel must do something, so last week young Sir Robert announced the opening...
...Manhattan department store): "Last week we went back to the old homestead in Talbotton, Ga., where Grandfather Lazarus Straus, fresh from Bavaria, began to be a U.S. merchant in 1848. His shack is still standing, but the original store had burned down. In the public square, the citizens spread for us a barbecue. As we were munching sandwiches, a withered man came up, shook our hands, said: 'Isidor Straus [our father, one the three sons of Lazarus] was the best Latin student I ever...
...even in epidemics. There is no definitely proved relation between the two diseases. Nor is there positive relation between encephalitis lethargica and infantile paralysis, although the infectious agent seems to be the same in both diseases. In fact, doctors do not know the cause. They think infection is spread by secretions from the nose and mouth. Because they are so ignorant in this case, they do not know sure ways of prevention. However, doctors do know this: most people are relatively immune to encephalitis lethargica...
...gold mania spread north to Walla Walla, Wash. A butcher found six nuggets in two chickens' crops. . . . It spread south to Arizona. Miners at Dripping Springs started a rush by declaring they had found lode worth $100,000 per ton. (Oldtimers scented a stock-selling game.) It spread west to California...
...produce a volume of fumes equivalent to that which would be caused if an automobile burned up on its way through one of the two tubes. Object: to test the ventilating system, upon which the whole success of the tubes depended. Result: complete success. The fumes did not spread more than 50 feet; were swept out of the tunnel in less than two minutes. . . . The problem of ventilating 9,250-foot tubes was more complicated than it would appear. Blowing fresh air in at one end and sucking it out at the other was pronounced impossible. It would take...