Word: spreads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the passing years the Slavs solidified in little communistic groups. Perhaps they were not naturally belligerent (not one of Mucha's paintings commemorates a deed of battle), but onslaughts of domineering Goths, the scorbutic spread of Huns under black-hearted Attila, compelled warfare. The Slavs multiplied, mi grated. Westward they journeyed to Poland, Northern Germany. Eastward they thronged Russia, pierced in slim wedges to the Pacific. Southward they trekked to Hungary, Albania, Greece. By the sth century A.D. they had ceased to be a nation, were even losing race consciousness. Gradually the widespread Slavic peoples adopted Christianity...
...Center spread (four colors...
...about the theatre are set with huge searchlights sweeping heaven. Fierce cordons of police force order in the crowds, thousands of common folk, many of whom have waited at vantage points since afternoon to see the gods descend from their chariots and pass nobly through the gates. Radio stations spread each new arrival's name across the miles of night. Stars cry their greeting through the microphone. Bewildered tourists from a saner world blink and are startled as they step into the white lobby light where the inevitable cameras click...
...neither cycle. In this symposium Mr. Beard has merely striven for understanding, a pause to look back and glance at the balance sheet of our present day civilization. In the confusion of the days events, the average Rotarian, rarely finds the moments, or grasps the isolated opportunity to see spread before him the wide vista presented by the present day world and its components. Life is too short! The view is too limited! But aided by a group of eminent men in all fields Mr. Beard has accomplished this height from which the average human can view, undistorted by philosophical...
...Beard must be given the credit for the vision which produced the above symposium, in which many others than have been commented upon, have spread the sphere of the present day before us. It asks or receives nothing, but in doing thus, it inspires a totally different and individual conception, aside from the traditional creeds, of the prevailing mode among such as "us moderns...