Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World Federalism will spread to the graduate schools tonight when a new club for graduates forms at 7:30 p.m. after an address by Louis B. Sohn, LL.M. '40, lecturer on law, in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House...
Doctors themselves were mostly to blame for making the U.S. a nation of laxative-takers. A generation ago, they spread the word, with the help of patent-medicine advertisers, that waste matter retained in the colon causes self-poisoning. Current medical belief denies this. Furthermore, most so-called constipation is nothing of the sort; daily elimination is not necessary to everybody's health. Fof some people, an interval of two days or more may be natural...
...been hand-picking the breed of duck they would gun for, choosing them for flavor. Said one hunter down from Manitoba: "We all got canvasbacks. Had a camp rule that anyone who shot a duck besides a canvasback would be fined two-bits." On recipes there was a wide spread of opinion. Fast cooked, rare duck (20 minutes in a 500° oven) was fashionable with gourmets; some hunters were not above slicing off a few fillets and frying them...
Fiery Mop-Up. These immediate effects, the AEC pointed out, would be only the beginning. Through the wrecked or damaged buildings-littered with splintered timbers, furniture, papers and merchandise-fire would spring up and spread. Fire-fighting equipment would be trapped in demolished firehouses or hampered by rubble-choked streets. Even if it reached the fires, it would have no water to fight with: broken pipes would have reduced the pressure in the mains to near zero. The roaring flames, perhaps stirring up a "fire storm" as they did at a standard-bomb assault on Hamburg, would kill many people...
Symbol of Pride. The Chinese called her Ai Wei-teh ("The Virtuous One"), the nearest they could get to Aylward. As the years went by, Ai Wei-teh's fame spread, and she was often called in for help and advice by Chinese officials. But one thing troubled her: her British passport seemed to her a symbol of pride. "I have given up my home and my parents for God," she told herself. "But I'm still different . . ." So she tore up her passport and became a Chinese citizen. The notice was posted on the doors...