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Word: spreading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SUPPORT the Crimson majority decision to reject Mr. Chan's advertisement soliciting Radcliffe women for Playboy's Ivy League spread. However, we strongly disagree with the majority's conception of "free" access to newspaper advertising space and the majority editorial's advertising policy statement which is a result of this conception...

Author: By William A. Schwartz, | Title: Pull More Ads | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

...dawn Monday, as news of more murders and suicides spread, scores of reporters and photographers scrambled to arrange transportation for the trip to Jonestown. Only one plane, with its required Guyanese pilot, was available for the journey. After hours of haggling, Neff and Kennerly finally got the plane and permission from the Guyana government to land at the bloodied site. The plane turned out to be the same five-passenger Cessna that had been waiting for Congressman Ryan on the night of his murder. Blood still stained the seat belts, and two bullet holes were punched in the doors

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 4, 1978 | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...teams exchanged missed field goal attempts, before the Crimson regained control of the ball at 1:54 after Bentley's Greg Sims was called for traveling. The Crimson spread out with Fine and Allen doing most of the ball-handling. Fine came to the line with 1:18 to play and coolly sunk two foul shots to run the score...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Hoopsters Knock Off Bentley, Netting First Win of Season | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

With the advent of the SAT, Kaplan found his work load too much to handle individually. Word-of-mouth advertising about the feisty tutor had spread to Queens and manhattan. He opened a permanent center in Brooklyn to handle the load, and rented places in the other boroughs in which to teach. His metropolitan area business continued to snowball as he became better known and the standardized tests more important...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Horatio Alger, With Chutzpah | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Like an ink blot spreading relentlessly across a clean blotter, Harvard may well continue to spread into and dominate Cambridge--or so city officials fear, in the wake of a new University loan program which offers low-interest, long-term mortgage terms to tenured faculty members buying nearby housing...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Folks Next Door | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

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