Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stubborn, stolid disregard by the steel industry and the Steelworkers for the general welfare, as they fought their private prestige battles, had already brought the U.S. to what the President called "a pretty pass." A blight of unemployment spread across the land as industrial plants slowed down or shut down for lack of steel. General Motors reported layoffs in St. Louis, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Framingham, Mass., Janesville, Wis., Norwood, Ohio and Tarrytown, N.Y. International Harvester announced that it would have to lay off workers in Springfield, Ohio and Fort Wayne, Ind. in early November. In some areas auto showrooms...
...that temperature, the hydrogen is hotter than the center of an exploding nuclear bomb. But the gas is spread so thin between the galaxies (fewer than ten atoms per cubic yard of space) that there is no appreciable heating effect on objects it surrounds. The heat merely makes it expand like any hot, unconfined gas; and since it fills the whole universe, the universe as a whole expands...
Star readers are used to such fast and timely color with their news. The paper prints news or news-related color pictures five times a week, recently spread a four-color picture of an American Legion parade across Page One just 5 hours and 19 minutes after the photograph was taken-and while the parade was still going...
Representing the Cambridge "Committee on Better Teeth for Our Children," Mrs. Dean A. Clark, wife of Dean A. Clark, clinical professor of Preventive Medicine, contacted Mott and urged him to form a group to spread pro-fluoridation propaganda among Cambridge voters, according to Mott...
Slowed by the quagmire which spread over much of the field, the Crimson backs were often late in hitting their holes, and running around the ends became practically impossible...