Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first meeting alter the Armistice resulted is a radical change in policy with the consequence that the fame of the Harvard Dramatic Club has ceased to be confined merely to Cambridge and Boston, but has spread through the country and even into foreign lands. Heretofore only plays by student authors or recent graduates had been presented. Now it was decided that things from foreign countries things which had never before been seen in America should form the programs of the Dramatic Club. That resolution has been faithfully followed by succeeding boards. With they exception of the revival. "Brown of Harvard...
...seasons on Mars-a 340-day summer and 347-day winter. Last week it was summer time on Mars' earthward hemisphere. The planet's ice cap was almost all melted. The stained areas showed the faint regular lines which some observers have called "canals." Their irregular spread, coupled with measurements of their heat, suggest that the stains are seasonal vegetation...
...seven years, publishers and booksellers have tried to make a virtue of the U. S. habit of having Weeks for things like Safety, Apples, Thrift, and agreed on the second week in November as a time to spread all their books for children on the front show-tables and have the clerks specialize in describing them. Some said that herein flashed a shrewd eye for profit. To which others replied: "What of it? There are more children than ever before, hence there must be more books." Still others added: "And never before were books made for children as they...
...straw with which the grounds have been covered in the past, have proven decidedly unsatisfactory, inasmuch as even a moderate wind would below the covering off the field. Although each of the four sections of the canvas weighs 1,600 pounds, benmen can spread and furl them in a fraction of the time formerly required to take the straw from the area between the goals...
...opening concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra. "Buzz-buzz-buzz. . ." Well-bred greetings were hushed only when the stage darkened and two swift shafts of light shot out from either wing to frame the pale, curled head of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Up went his hand and beauty floated, spread itself over the dusky hall-the orchestral season had begun. Mozart came first, an early overture long buried away in the library of the Paris Conservatoire, charming, tuneful, immature; "Pan," a rhapsody by U. S. composer William Schroeder, difficult, cleverly constructed, tedious; Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice," brilliant, biting; Beethoven...