Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gogol: "Moscow is an old home-keeping person, it bakes bliny, it looks from afar and listens, without rising from the armchair, to the tale of what goes on in the world." Muscovites retained their simple faith, which often took the homey form of poetic superstition. Perhaps the most widespread legend was that the huge Tower of Ivan within the Kremlin was married to the Sukharev Tower, a cute little number outside the Kremlin walls. Muscovites called them Jack & Jenny and claimed that every year they moved a little closer together...
...does not yet raise enough food to feed itself. War-born industries are wobbly. Unemployment is growing. Furthermore, in recent months, nature has been anti-Mexican. Aftosa, the destructive foot-&-mouth disease, has crippled the basic cattle industry. A locust plague has stripped the Tehuantepec Isthmus. There has been widespread drought. There have also been torrential rains that have blocked highways and washed seed from the ground...
...lively undergraduate magazine, Cherwell, he wrote: "Perhaps no one would deny that Christianity is now 'on the map' among the younger intelligentsia, as it was not, say, in 1920. Only freshmen now talk as if the anti-Christian position were self-evident. . . . [Yet] we must remember that widespread and lively interest in the subject is precisely what we call a fashion. . . . Whatever . . . mere fashion has given us, mere fashion will presently withdraw. The real conversions will remain, but nothing else will. In that sense we may be on the brink of a real, permanent Christian revival...
...much of the spending is not being done in such noticeably big pieces. Smaller companies in almost every other industry are making small but widespread changes in the industrial landscape. They are building extensions to existing plants or raising new ones in a vast scramble for spacious positions close to power, labor, raw materials, markets, or cheaper tax rates...
That no imaginative appeal for new support is made constitutes a weakness all the greater because the foremost requirement for an effective student organization is a broad base of participation. Interest at Harvard in NSO has been more spasmodic than widespread. A minor tempest arose over the question of whether or not NSO should be affiliated with the International Union of Students, formed last summer in Prague. On this issue the "Progressive's" contributor, J. C. Farrar of Yale, takes a qualified affirmative position, proposing "affiliation at once" but only on the grant of "certain contingencies." Though reasserting the benefits...