Word: spreads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That France will have a great deal to say in defense of her position was made clear, last week, when Foreign Minister Briand announced that he too will shortly submit a tentative multilateral treaty text to the Powers concerned. Should the fashion for drafting and bandying such texts spread to a third power, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, the ensuing negotiations may well become a diplomatic cross word puzzle, titanic and inextricable. In an effort to scotch such confusion, Secretary Kellogg said in all his notes, last week...
...present generation is no worse than any other," she continued, "but should have protection from such ridiculous ideas as companionism. The spread of a doctrine of this sort should be nipped in the bud. It can be dangerous if allowed...
Cholera, furiously fatal intestinal disease, is as old as populated India; and until 1817 never left the home grounds. In that year it spread East; with the increase of travel in later years it spread West, invading the Americas in 1826 and 1873. The great pandemic of 1879 to 1883 threw a scare into the civilized world, sent scientists to microscope and test tube, sent Robert Koch* into Egypt from which he emerged with the Vibrio cholerae, cause of all the trouble. Work on the troublesome organism has not ceased since that time. During the last epidemic the British Government...
Last week Mr. Hearst's Washington Herald seized Mr. Britten's speech with a cry of joy, and spread the Rhodes Scholarship paragraph in extra big and extra black type as a text for an editorial which covered the entire top-half of a page...
...other water is an enormous shallow bay, spread like a thin shield across the North of Canada. Into this grey harbor also Hudson sailed; and here, after spending a winter on its frozen shore, he stayed to watch his ship, manned by a mutiny, putting back for England, leaving him and two companions to drown or freeze or starve. It is idle and unpleasant to imagine how the tireless captain accomplished death; it is possible, though, to imagine him as he must have looked, sitting in a small boat, listening to the slap of water on its gunwale, watching...