Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orchestra was playing "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" from Florodora when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. The architect, who had started to rise when he saw Mr. Thaw coming toward him, sank back into his chair with an expression of sudden weariness while a tide of slow vermilion spread like spilled wine across the bosom of his evening shirt. That was in June, 1906. Now Harry Thaw has written a book...
...horror, two huge sharks were circling about, churning the water, swirling greedily. I drew in my legs. I recalled that a bather near Genoa had been eaten alive by sharks last month. I rowed for shore. The brutes charged me many times but I got to safety, spread a warning...
Confused despatches put the death toll between 10 and 50. Some 400 were injured. Bubonic plague appeared, killing two. The balance of Horta's 8000 inhabitants moved to the country or set up tents on their tennis courts. "Earthquake love" spread everywhere-the human sympathy and mercy that is always stirred up by great disaster. Portugal, whose possessions the Azores are, rushed portable houses and more tents to the scene. None of the various trans-Atlantic cables for which the Azores are a station were broken...
...monstrous wrinkled paunches. Certain species, having laid in arsenals of teeth, were meateaters and not in the least squeamish about devouring their peaceful relatives. In time, one sensible clan specialized in defense, going always on all fours, with armor plate on a humpy back and a flange of skull spread back fanwise to protect the neck. On the forehead grew three horns; the upper lip hardened and hooked downward in a terrible beak...
Soon the news spread that the K-XIII had sailed over and dived through 10,000 miles of brine since leaving Helder in the Netherlands, had scored a distance record never before approached by an unconvoyed submarine...