Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Stanley I. Stuber, press-relations man for the Northern Baptist Convention, echoing widespread U.S. Protestant irritation, asked why. Wrote he, to the New York Times...
During the last two weeks the Student Council has become increasingly aware of widespread opinion among both faculty and students that the tutorial system is entering its final stage of decline. In following up these persistent rumors, the Student Council Committee on General Education has over the past few days talked with members of almost every major department where tutorial has up to now been maintained...
...creaking in a high wind-and its troubles had a direct connection with Russian pressures. Prime Minister Clement Attlee told Parliament that "leftwing elements and Communists" had fanned the Bombay mutiny. Whether they had or not, Russia's championship of dependent peoples at UNO had obviously aggravated widespread colonial unrest...
...bishops for the large bodies of Catholic immigrants: foreign-language groups, especially the Germans, demanded a clergy of their own origin and language. A large part of the hierarchy, led by the Irish, considered this a dangerous trend. They knew that Catholicism in the U.S. labored under a widespread suspicion of being an alien creed, that the Church could prosper only by doing its utmost to Americanize the immigrants and adapting its policies to those of the young democracy...
...temperature rose to 52° in Montreal, 57° in Toronto, 62° in Windsor. Carefree citizens kicked off their galoshes, doffed their heavy overcoats to enjoy one of the warmest, longest and most widespread January thaws in recorded weather history...