Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fascist masons toiled furiously, early in the week, to construct an imposing dais between the Arch of Constantine and the Colosseum, with stones taken from the nearby Temple of Venus. As "the 2,680th? anniversary of Rome "dawned," the dais was spread with draperies of imperial red. Upon it were set gilded crowns and other trophies won in the wars of ancient Rome. Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud. Jove-like, he frowned upon the suffocating throngs. Awed, they were silent...
...movement started in Great Britain, and spread from there, taking a very strong hold in Germany, Russia, and Switzerland. It has proved especially influential in rural districts; in one Swiss town where the same man was mayor of the town and President of the Cooperative Society it was said that he considered the latter position by far the more important. This is an indication of the trend away from political coercive rule toward voluntary control by the people themselves...
...seem long when it is measured in weeks, but three months is a long time for a strike to last?so long that newspaper readers who know how the Passaic strike began with the walk-out of a handful of workers from the Botany Worsted Mills, how it spread until it included some 10,000 employes of other Jersey mills, how the grey-faced men and girls, exhorted by Strike-leader Albert Weisbord, by Elisabeth Gurley Flynn, picketed and paraded, were jailed, clubbed and watered with fire-hose (TIME, March 15), forget that these grim maneuvers still continue intermittently from...
After a week of wandering I have returned once more to the confines of Cambridge and find for this morning such a wealth of courses spread before me that I find it difficult to choose my fare. Perhaps, if I scan the entire menu for this morning I shall be able to make up my mind what to take...
...spread well," said President Coolidge. To what did he refer? (See THE PRESS...