Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Families & Friends. From the mill gates, the strike's acid corrosion spread all over town. Fiery Val Bjarnason, U.T.W.'s Ontario director, organized a march on the home of Mayor William England to demand the removal of the provincial police. The mayor, whose own daughter had marched in the strikers' picket line, went to the hospital to rest his shattered nerves...
Nonetheless, the popularity of the Hallmark contest had spread like wildfire. Last week Philippe Huisman, director of exhibitions for Paris' Wildenstein galleries and Hallmark's French representative, announced with pride that over 5,000 entries had been received...
...action revising the present distribution setup. For example, students concentrating in natural sciences, or pre-meds may count three lab courses, or two lab courses and a math course as fulfilling the GE requirement in Natural Sciences. Also, in cases where concentration requirements make it necessary, students may spread the required three elementary GE courses over their first three years...
Thunder on the Left. As the rumpus spread, the protests grew louder. The Young Progressives made most of the noise. Meanwhile, President Strand's stand got support from some members of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors; the president, they said, was entirely within his rights. Spitzer and La Vallee countered by declaring that they would appeal to the A.A.U.P.: they insisted that they were being fired for their Progressive activities. Finally, Strand's patience snapped...
Last week Manhattan's dignified Cooper Union put on a show whose purpose was to track the cat through history with the help of sculpture, painting and design. It took more than 250 separate items (in an exhibit entitled "Nine Lives") to spread out the story: from the Egyptians' poker-faced cat-headed goddess Bast to the Chesapeake & Ohio's pampered, machine-age Chessie...