Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barkley was a mite stiff in the joints, but his eagerness to kiss a pretty girl was as well known as his homespun quip. President Harry Truman, signing a bill authorizing a special Barkley medal for his long and distinguished record in Congress, jokingly displayed a LIFE spread of Barkley cavorting with a Washington hostess, as evidence of his "service." Mr. Truman might have added that since Barkley took office in January, he has made more speeches (62 in 21 states), crowned more queens, and bussed more babies than any Vice President of record...
...workers of the Canadian Baptist Mission have spread good works across the windswept barrens of the Bolivian altiplano. The mission has built schools and hospitals for the poverty-haunted tin miners to whom it ministers, given out free medicines, taught converts to speak
...several occasions our men . . . had to confront the enemy face to face. Blood has already been shed . . . Rumors are still being heard. At first these rumors were spread by Western persons . . . But we knew that the Red army cannot attack a Socialist country because that would mean the end of Socialism in the world . . . But today those in the East are also trying to intimidate us, disseminating rumors ... of this many and that many Soviet divisions in one place or another . . . We are afraid only of elemental upheavals, droughts and hail . . . [We are] prepared to defend our country against...
...Spread Thin. Having spread the facts on the record, Armour Laboratories began spreading the short supply of ACTH thinner than ever. Contracts were signed with 45 leading hospitals and clinics across the U.S. To qualify for a tiny share of the priceless powder (it is not for sale), each institution must show that it has the staff and equipment to carry out carefully controlled experiments...
...that he would never teach a class again. The atom bomb changed his mind. As wartime head of the National Defense Research Committee, he was horrified at the scientific illiteracy around him. Some of his like-minded colleagues, like Chemist Harold Urey of the University of Chicago, decided to spread understanding by direct political lobbying. Conant felt that he should carry on his own crusade in the classroom...