Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spaniards first met this valuable esculent near Quito onetime Peruvian possession, now capital of Ecuador. In 1553, a Seville chronicle mentions it under the name of "battata" or "papa." Later the potato spread to Italy and Belgium, where it did not "take." In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh planted it on his estate near Cork, Ireland, where is multiplied...
Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski left Warsaw a fortnight ago, ostensibly to "take the cure" at a sanatorium for nervous diseases in Druskieniki on the Lithuanian frontier. Rumors spread that the Marshal's notoriously irresolute brain was tottering. Then his personal jingoist news organ Armed Poland flaunted a demand that Poland seize from Germany the territories of Ermeland, Stettin, Oppeln and Breslau, "because the Treaty of Versailles has done Poland an injustice by not granting her the ancient Polish frontier of 1772." Straightway it was rumored that Pilsudski, super-melodramatist, had feigned illness that he might secretly view the terrain...
...whole Church-not just a few individuals-must be awakened and aroused to its duty to spread the Evangel. This means nothing less than a complete change of mind, a reorientation of our whole attitude, a new baptism of the Spirit. . . . Viewing the fields already ripe to the harvest, we would offer ourselves as reapers, saying individually and corporately-'Here am I; send...
Plans for the crusade are still incomplete. Committees are in session; campaigns are being planned. But so much is known: 200 evangelists, picked men, well trained, will go two by two into the dioceses. And before them, to spread the word, will go Bishop Darst...
...there would be a sentence or two mentioning a "taut white skirt" and, perhaps, tucked under one of Tilden's feet. a picture of Kitty McKane, British champion in 1924. Miss McKane is now, resolutely, Mrs. Godfree, and this year her picture was at the top of every spread. Over the shadows of Helen Wills (scratched), of Suzanne Lenglen (retired), of Molla Mallory (beaten), she stepped forward to win the "Women's Wimbledon...