Word: spreads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They are equipped with luxurious trappings, hot and cold running water, sleeping compartments, radio sets, spacious windows. The 90-foot wing spread will lift, beside fuel and passengers, 1,000 pounds of baggage. The three Wright Cyclone motors will propel this load at an average 130 m. p. h. for four and one-half hours, could if necessary attain 155 m. p. h., climb 16,100 feet. Edgar M. Gott, president of the Keystone Aircraft Corp., has for the last two months kept the construction of these monsters a secret...
...late Frances E. Willard planted two saplings, 70 years ago, and cried: "As these two horse chestnut trees grow and spread their branches, so the cause of temperance shall grow and spread throughout all the world." Miss Willard was the founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The two trees in the yard of her home at Evanston, Ill. (now the headquarters of the W. C. T. U.) did grow, and now they are rotting. Last week, tree surgeons were busy anointing, repairing and healing the two trees...
Unprecedented last week was a deluge of snow which spread death and destruction in Trebizond. Nineteen feet lay piled on the Gümush-Khane plain above the city while, across the mountains, Constantinople and Angora were sweltering in their hottest summer...
Therefore the Royal & Imperial bread was publicly spread extra thick, last week, with the best butter: "... very enjoyable stay . . . the Queen and I have appreciated the loyal and enthusiastic reception . . . the true English welcome which we will never forget . . . accorded us by the people of Nottinghamshire...
...Grand Trunk is James W. Blake, benign-looking, round-faced man who wears eyeglasses. His Order of the Elephants, which he founded, tries to spread happiness among business men. The only requirement for membership is to keep smiling. Lodges are called "tusks...