Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right . . . keep that line and walk up. . . . Bring up that 12 horse. . . . Back, four. . . . Step back, I tell you. . . . All right, Jimmy, bring him up. . . . The Salmon horse . . . Eddy, get that 12 horse by the bridle and pull him up. . . .All right, hold it . . . hold it ... spread out there...
...give an annual amount which in their minds will be the equivalent of the annual interest on the larger sum which they would like to feel themselves in a position to contribute some day. It has been a matter of genuine surprise to us to note the wide-spread interest on the part of the Harvard men of this section." Bergmann Richards '09. Vice-President, Western Division. Associated Harvard Clubs. Minneapolis
...Sport of Kings. Ian Hay (Beith) is not now so well known as he was during the War. His battle writings roused interest in his novels; his lectures spread the advertisement. Of late he has withdrawn somewhat from the general consciousness. He returns with a chaotic farce about betting on horse races. It is not likely to add to his repute...
...were the interclub sloops (Marconi-rigged yachts, 19½ feet on the water line), the new racing boats; and their appearance meant that the yacht-racing season had begun again in Eastern waters. Soon the boats of the other classes -the graceful, low-leaning "S" boats with their big spread of canvas, the shorter "Victory" boats (single-masted crafts with self-bailing cockpits, easy to handle in rough weather), the midget "Fish" and "Star" classes, 15-footers in which yachtmen's young sons and younger daughters dabble and pull ropes and get wet-soon these, and all the other...
...French Academy of Medicine announced that it has been perfected. Its principle is similar to that of the Wassermann test. If it detects cancer in the early stages, the Botelho indicator test will be of incalculable benefit, for one or another of the recognized cancer treatments can stop the spread of the disease when applied to early stages...