Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Residents of Walter Hastings Hall, Law School dormitory, are no longer observing the parietal rules concerning women in the rooms with their traditional grain of salt; for the grapevine telegraph has spread the word that the authorities are from now on going to enforce the letter...
...rescue work. Airplanes, many lent by U. S., French and German air lines, were used to ferry food and medical supplies. Two British cruisers, in Chilean waters for a friendship visit, began transporting medical supplies, evacuating refugees and injured. Greatest need was for medical supplies to prevent the spread of tetanus, typhoid, check gangrene. From their Canal Zone base, two U. S. Army bombers roared south loaded with serums. From Chile's neighbor, Argentina, started a fleet of rescue planes and trainloads of supplies...
...explicit explanations for her failure compare strangely with the reasons implicit in her story. Her sense of failure in general comes from her waning popularity, and from a sense of personal shortcoming which she traces to the ominous state of the world, particularly as reflected in the spread of fascism and antiSemitism. But she cannot decide whether she or the world has gone in the wrong direction; whether she has not been serious enough, or whether the world has grown too grim. In one breath she confesses that her novels sold well because they were escapist. In another breath...
...fire department managed to confine the conflagration to two sitting rooms and a hall on the first floor, but it threatened for a while to spread throughout the entire building. Bedrooms located on the first floor also escaped damage, as did the Fly Club, nearby parent organization...
...idea back of the Harvard refugee plan is being spread to other colleges and universities by an Intercollegiate Committee to Aid German Student Refugees, of which Lane is the head. He is going to New York this week to work at the committee's New York office...